FreeBSD #xxx: Dramatically optimize listing snapshots when user
requests only snapshot names and wants to sort them by name, ie.
when executes:
# zfs list -t snapshot -o name -s name
Because only name is needed we don't have to read all snapshot
properties.
Below you can find how long does it take to list 34509 snapshots
from a single disk pool before and after this change with cold and
warm cache:
before:
# time zfs list -t snapshot -o name -s name > /dev/null
cold cache: 525s
warm cache: 218s
after:
# time zfs list -t snapshot -o name -s name > /dev/null
cold cache: 1.7s
warm cache: 1.1s
NOTE: This patch only appears in FreeBSD. If/when Illumos picks up
the change we may want to drop this patch and adopt their version.
However, for now this addresses a real issue.
Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #450
One of the neat tricks an autoconf style project is capable of
is allow configurion/building in a directory other than the
source directory. The major advantage to this is that you can
build the project various different ways while making changes
in a single source tree.
For example, this project is designed to work on various different
Linux distributions each of which work slightly differently. This
means that changes need to verified on each of those supported
distributions perferably before the change is committed to the
public git repo.
Using nfs and custom build directories makes this much easier.
I now have a single source tree in nfs mounted on several different
systems each running a supported distribution. When I make a
change to the source base I suspect may break things I can
concurrently build from the same source on all the systems each
in their own subdirectory.
wget -c http://github.com/downloads/behlendorf/zfs/zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz
tar -xzf zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd zfs-x-y-z
------------------------- run concurrently ----------------------
<ubuntu system> <fedora system> <debian system> <rhel6 system>
mkdir ubuntu mkdir fedora mkdir debian mkdir rhel6
cd ubuntu cd fedora cd debian cd rhel6
../configure ../configure ../configure ../configure
make make make make
make check make check make check make check
This change also moves many of the include headers from individual
incude/sys directories under the modules directory in to a single
top level include directory. This has the advantage of making
the build rules cleaner and logically it makes a bit more sense.
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
Brian Behlendorf