On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 05:19:18PM -0400, Ellis, Mike wrote:

> As soon as you put those zfs blocks ontop of iscsi, the netapp won't
> have a clue as far as how to defrag those "iscsi files" from the
> filer's perspective.  (It might do some fancy stuff based on
> read/write patterns, but that's unlikely)

Since the LUN is just a large file on the Netapp, I assume that all
it can do is to put the blocks back into sequential order.  That might
have some benefit overall.

-- 
-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
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