On Apr 29, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Brandon High wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Dan Shelton <dan.shel...@oracle.com> wrote: >> Is anyone aware of any freeware program that can speed up copying tons of >> data (2 TB) from UFS to ZFS on same server? > > Setting 'sync=disabled' for the initial copy will help, since it will > make all writes asynchronous.
Few local commands are sync. cp, cpio, tar, rsync, etc are all effectively async for local copies. Disabling the ZIL will do nothing to speed these. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
