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- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss