Nope, I had sync disabled across the board. There are people on the nexenta boards who are ticked because nextentastor only allows zvol iscsi targets (via the gui...)
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Sommerfeld [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI On 05/31/11 17:35, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:17 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: >> I hava better performance with files instead of zvols. > > Now that is interesting... there are two factors that you may want to look at: 1) block size. files default to a 128K allocation block size, while zvols default to 8K. 2) check the "sync" property; the zvol may be generating synchronous writes while I/O to the file isn't. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
