[mythtv-users] ZFS - what's the scoop?

[John Drescher]

> > > It is a fuse module so it runs in the userspace instead of the kernel.
> > > I did some testing a few weeks back and although it has a lot of great
> > > features there is one very big problem. Performance is very very bad.
> > > With a zfs filesystem on a linux software raid6 that nets reads at
> >
> > Doesn't zfs include RAID-like functionality, making a RAID layer
> > underneath redundant, and inefficient?
> >
> I did not have the ZFS raid layer activated I agree this may have
> something to do with the problem.
>
I guess I should not post 5 minutes after waking up. I meant to say
that although I did not use the ZFS raid layer I probably should have
used a blank hard drive instead of a partition on a software raid
array or even better a machine with a set of 5 or more blank drives so
I could test the zraid performance. I actually have this now as I just
hooked up 8 750GB seagate 7200.10 drives to a machine to make sure
none of them are DOA, however I am not sure if I will get time to
test.

John