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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:27:27 -0453.75
From:      "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Post install FWIW
Message-ID:  <56279175.6000006@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <20151021105210.GA31309@neutralgood.org>
References:  <56265636.4050208@hiwaay.net> <562685CE.5050309@sneakertech.com> <5626BAB6.4070304@hiwaay.net> <20151021105210.GA31309@neutralgood.org>

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On 10/21/15 05:58, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 05:11:12PM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> On 10/20/15 13:26, Quartz wrote:
>>>> When I dd'ed /dev/zero to (re-) initialize the individual
>>>> drives during install, I saw 125-ish MB/s per drive, so this is 90-ish %
>>>> efficient for this write.
>>> Do remember that using dd to estimate disk speeds is tricky since its
>>> write pattern is somewhat non-standard. You should try a more 'real
>>> world' test like rsyncing a bunch of random crap with differing sizes.
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>>
>> *Agreed*, that's why I called it 'light benchmarking'. I will be alert
>> to more data as time goes on, but this looked so promising I decided to
>> spread the love, so to speak ....
> Does this system have the optimization turned on where writes of all
> zeros get detected and turned into just a single block on disk?
>
> Maybe I'm thinking of a dedup option in which case you can ignore me.


Very good question, I wouldn't know, I made very few changes from the 
wiki page during the install. How would I check on that ? TIA & have a 
good one.


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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