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Date:      Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:15:26 +0200
From:      Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
To:        Artem Belevich <art@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Prompt to synchronize two volumes ZFS
Message-ID:  <3596CB9B-7996-404B-AD34-D3A8DFD67FD4@sarenet.es>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim-zK1cgjbaqDFQfmXWNVD4rCLEkw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 18, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Artem Belevich wrote:

> They mentioned performance. mbuffer in-between receive and send makes
> *a lot* of difference as long as you provide few seconds worth of
> buffering at the rate your filesystems can sustain. I think the
> authors of the page above just didn't use large enough buffer. You
> would probably have to experiment yourself. In my case of ~3TB
> transfer (mostly large files), I ended up with "mbuffer -m512M". I
> also used mbuffer's built-in network transfer mechanism (see mbuffer's
> -I/-O options) as at high data rates ssh became the bottleneck.

Moreover, although ZFS receive seems to be robust in case a replication =
stream is interrupted, I find it much more safer to move the stream =
beforehand, and start the zfs receive with a complete stream.




Borja.




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