read/write benchmarking: UFS2 vs ZFS vs EXT3 vs ZFS RAIDZ vs Linux MDRAID

Andrew Snow andrew at modulus.org
Sun Jun 28 10:39:56 UTC 2009


> What's confusing is that your results are actually out of place with
> how ZFS numbers are supposed to look, not mine :) When using ZFS
> RAIDZ, due to the way parity checking works in ZFS, your pool is
> SUPPOSED to have throughput of the average single disk from that pool
> and not some numbers growing skyhigh in a linear fashion.

Could you please elaborate on this and explain it?

- Andrew


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