Brian Buhrow <[email protected]> writes: > hello. Yes, I was vaguely aware of the lack of extended attributes for > NetBSD-Zfs, but > what I was suggesting was just using a flat file, exported via iscsi through > istgt or your > initiator of choice, on top of zfs, rather than a zvol, because you'll find > the read/write speed > to be so much faster. Unfortunately, it seems the upstream zfs maintainers > have decided that > zvols are not worth the time to optimize, so while they're functional, > they're not performant > under any openzfs-using implementation. This makes me sad because zvols are > such a tidy way to > manage so many different kinds of things. > > -thanks > -Brian
I freely admit that I don't use zvols very much in NetBSD, but did you mess with the volblocksize any on the volume?? -- Brad Spencer - [email protected] - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
