Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > A tar pipeline still provides terrible file copy performance. Read > bandwidth is only 26 MB. So I stopped the tar copy and re-tried the > cpio copy. > > A second copy with the cpio results in a read/write data rate of only > 54.9 MB/s (vs the just experienced 132 MB/s). Performance is reduced > by more than half. Based on yesterday's experience, that may diminish > to only 33 MB/s.
"star -copy -no-fsync bs=8m fs=256m -C from-dir . to-dir" is nearly 40% faster than "find . | cpio -pdum to-dir" Did you try to use highly performant software like star? Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss