Solaris and the new 4K-Sector-Disks (e.g. WDxxEARS) / Part 2 - SolarismenSome days ago, I was just about to purchase two of those WD20EARS disks, when I stumbled over reports about their bad performance together with ZFS. I had a look at the I/O pattern produced writing large chunks of zeroes to one of my current disks, using "iosnoop" from the excellent DTrace Toolkit. (...) 102 64 0 0 W 1103045891 131072 sched 102 64 0 0 W 1103046147 131072 sched 102 64 0 0 W 1103
