Speed up metasync

Solaris

It’s amazing how slowly a resync happens with Solaris Volumen Manager (SVM). You can dramatically reduce your time to sync up your mirrors with SVM by adding a setting to /etc/system and rebooting.

set md_mirror:md_resync_bufsz = 1024

I’ve tried 2048 (the max) as well, but not as big a gain in speed, so I stick with 1024.

Harmless on “modern” Sun machines. Just don’t try this on your SPARC 20 or it may lock up on you. As long as you have >1GB of RAM you’ll probably be ok.

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  1. this is a greatly intriguing post, thank you as the information. Wretched my english is not the darned best. do you remember if it is possible to despatch this to the spanish language. that would be very helpfull.

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  3. Hi, just wanted to say, I enjoyed this post. It was practical. Keep on posting!||

  4. You’ve got some helpful ideas! Maybe I should consider doing this my self.

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