geom_sched and ZFS

Freddie Cash fjwcash at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 23:55:56 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jeremy Chadwick
<freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> 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 at 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.

Yeah, I kinda figured it wouldn't be needed.  Just curious if anyone
tried it.  :)


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