Linked by Robert Escue on Wed 4th Jun 2008 05:06 UTC
Let's take a closer look at OpenSolaris, particularly its use of ZFS, network problems that people have reported, the use of bash, and differences between OpenSolaris and Solaris and Solaris Express. Note: This is the latest article in our OSNews Article Contest.
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From the graphs, it looks like ZFS provides much better filesystem performance. Notice how the read speed peaks for small files (well, it plateaus not peaks...) where it appears to be almost double the speed of ext3. As the filesize increases, performance drops to ext3 peak levels and it maintains that performance throughout.
I think that is significant as predictable filesystem performance allows you to have a better estimate of how your server/workstation will perform.