River Tarnell wrote:
> I'm now running a test using VxFS on SVM soft partitions to see if that
> improves performance at all (but I'd much rather have the flexibility of
> VxVM).
>
Flexibility is often expensive from a performance point of view. We
regularly tell people here that they have to avoid using Linux's LVM for
similar reasons--while it shouldn't be so slow, it is. Nothing you can
do about it but use direct disk partitions instead if you need the
performance to be good.
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