Bug #9102

zfs should be able to initialize storage devices

Added by George Wilson 8 months ago. Updated 6 months ago.

Status:ClosedStart date:2018-02-13
Priority:NormalDue date:
Assignee:George Wilson% Done:

100%

Category:zfs - Zettabyte File System
Target version:-
Difficulty:Medium Tags:needs-triage

Description

The first access to a disk block can incur a performance penalty on some platforms (e.g. AWS's EBS, VMware VMDKs). Therefore it is recommended that volumes be "thick provisioned", where supported by the platform (VMware). Thick provisioning is time consuming and often is ignored. If the thick provision step is omitted, customers will see suboptimal performance until we have written to all parts of the LUN. ZFS should be able to initialize any unused storage to remove any first-write penalty that exists.

History

#1 Updated by Electric Monk 6 months ago

  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
  • Status changed from New to Closed

git commit 094e47e980b0796b94b1b8f51f462a64d246e516

commit  094e47e980b0796b94b1b8f51f462a64d246e516
Author: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Date:   2018-04-25T22:29:05.000Z

    9102 zfs should be able to initialize storage devices
    Reviewed by: John Wren Kennedy <john.kennedy@delphix.com>
    Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
    Reviewed by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
    Reviewed by: Prakash Surya <prakash.surya@delphix.com>
    Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>

#2 Updated by Electric Monk 6 months ago

git commit 2b7e4143e3543c9086e5a53ddea2cbc235ebada0

commit  2b7e4143e3543c9086e5a53ddea2cbc235ebada0
Author: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Date:   2018-04-26T22:47:30.000Z

    9102 zfs should be able to initialize storage devices (fix mapfile)

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