Openoffice on Ubuntu had been pissing me off no end – hanging on startup, etc. Google pointed the finger at NFSv3 (which is how I share out a ZFS home directory from my Solaris box ). Apparently it’s happier on NFSv4 (setantae describes it as ‘NFS without the shitty bits), so it’s time to revisit [...]
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ZIL communication
If you’re dealing with lots of small files, a NFS and ZFS combination can run slower than you’d like. For example, untarring the apache source tree on the NFS client: planb:$ time tar xvf httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz real 2m9.594s user 0m0.356s sys 0m0.508s Ouch. BenR mentioned turning off the ZIL (ZFS intent log ) to speed up [...]
