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Date:      Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:29:57 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: geom_sched and ZFS
Message-ID:  <20110204212957.GA9549@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20110204172822.00006149@unknown>
References:  <AANLkTikY15zS7YvfNfRB0unb2qYaHkyQp__YJ7_b8nUa@mail.gmail.com> <20110204172822.00006149@unknown>

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On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 05:28:22PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:40:03 -0800
> Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Just curious if anyone has played around with geom_sched underneath
> > ZFS, and found it to be extremely worthwhile, or not worth the bother,
> > or if if it should be avoided altogether.
> 
> ZFS has its own I/O scheduler so shouldn't have any use for geom_sched.
> See http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Performance for
> details.

And furthermore, gsched greatly angers things like sysinstall.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
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