Re: Wondering what you can do for FreeBSD/ZFS?

Gary Jennejohn writes:
> 
> "Claus Guttesen" writes:
> > > > You'll find the answer here:
> > > >
> > > >       http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS
> > > >
> > > > There is a list of things that we need to work on. Yes, _we_ :)
> > >
> > > I just committed fixed for 'slow mmap' and 'FreeBSD namecache' tasks.
> > > These were very important ones, but there are other waiting for takers!
> > >
> > > If you are testing ZFS, please update and report all problems you find.
> > > Those changes worked fine for me, but they weren't trivial and they
> > > might be some negative consequences.
> > 
> > Hi Pawel. I updated last night and the changes you comitted tripled
> > the performance. Yesterday a rsync of a folder with 22.468 files and
> > folders weighing 22 GB would copy at approx. 11 MB/s. Now it's 31 MB.
> > 
> > Nice work :-)
> > 
> 
> I suddenly see a "kern memmap too small" panic with vfs.zfs.zil_disable="1"
> in loader.conf. Haven't tried it yet with the new code and without that
> setting.
> 

Looks like my sources weren't quite up-to-date. With sources cvsup'd about
an hour ago I see absolutely no problems with zil_disable set to 1.

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