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Three new white papers are now out comparing the performance characteristics and differences between Solaris ZFS and Microsoft, Red Hat and Veritas.

SOLARIS™ ZFS AND MICROSOFT SERVER 2003 NTFS FILE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE WHITE PAPER Click here for PDF
The Solaris™ 10 06/06 Operating System (OS) introduced a new data management technology — the Solaris ZFS file system. Replacing the traditionally separate file system and volume manager functionality found in most operating environments, Solaris ZFS provides immense capacity and performance coupled with a proven data integrity model and simplified administrative interface. This white paper explores the performance characteristics and differences of Solaris ZFS and the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 NTFS file system through a series of publicly available benchmarks, including BenchW, Postmark, and others.

SOLARIS™ ZFS AND RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX EXT3 FILE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE WHITE PAPER Click here for PDF
The Solaris™ 10 06/06 Operating System (OS) introduced a major new data management technology — the Solaris ZFS file system. Replacing the traditionally separate file system and volume manager functionality found in most operating environments, Solaris ZFS provides immense capacity and performance coupled with a proven data integrity model and simplified administrative interface. This white paper explores the performance characteristics and differences of Solaris ZFS and the ext3 file system through a series of benchmarks based on use cases derived from common scenarios, as well as the IOzone File System Benchmark (IOzone benchmark) which tests specific I/O patterns.

SOLARIS™ ZFS AND VERITAS STORAGE FOUNDATION FILE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE WHITE PAPER Click here for PDF
The Solaris™ 10 06/06 Operating System (OS) introduces a major new data management technology — the Solaris ZFS file system. Replacing the traditionally separate file system and volume manager functionality found in most operating environments, Solaris ZFS provides immense capacity and performance coupled with a proven data integrity model and simplified administrative interface. This white paper explores the performance characteristics and differences of Solaris ZFS and the Veritas File System through a series of tests using the Filebench benchmarking framework which reproduces the I/O patterns of applications, as well as the popular IOzone benchmark which tests specific I/O patterns.

Comments:

These are interesting tests, but there is an anomaly in the ext3 and vxfs mesurements. Since there are 4*2Gb FC links to the array, the maximal bit rate is 8 Gbps = 1 GB/s. It is the same limit as the PCI-X 133 BTW. But there are graphs which show read and write performances above this number, particularly in the zfs vs ext3 paper. At first I thought this was because only zeroes were written and the controller only sent changes, but even if that was the case, we would still be bound to the PCI-X speed (1 GB/s). So I really think that there are some anomalies in some tests.

Posted by willy tarreau on June 15, 2007 at 11:06 PM PDT #