<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM Atiq Rahman <<a href="mailto:atiqcx@gmail.com">atiqcx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br></div><div>When I am copying over files to the zfs dataset on an external HDD, the speed is one third of what it is over exFAT. This is zfs to zfs copy which is basically way slower than zfs to exFAT.<br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What speed are you actually getting? Both from the perspective of how long the<br></div><div>copy takes, but also from iostat.<br><br></div><div>I do this, and see transfer speeds that are either limited by the capacity of USB2, or<br></div><div>the drive itself if I have a USB3 port.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>This was my zpool create command on the external drive,</div><div><br></div><div>```</div><div><div><code><span>zpool create -o ashift=12 -O compression=lz4 -o autotrim=off -O mountpoint=none -O atime=off -O dnodesize=auto hyperspace /dev/dsk/c4t0d0</span></code></div></div><div><code><span>```</span></code></div><div><code><span><br></span></code></div><div><code><span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">And, this is how the dataset was created:</span></span></code></div><div><code><span><br></span></code></div><div><code><span>```</span></code></div><div><code><span><div><code><span>zfs create -o recordsize=1M -o normalization=formD -O mountpoint=/media hyperspace/media</span></code></div><div><code><span>```</span></code></div></span></code></div><div><br></div><div>I know zfs has journaling overhead. But, is it possible to set certain zfs properties to improve the transfer speed?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Journaling normally speeds things up.<br><br></div><div>But generally I would start with using the defaults (except compression), other settings generally<br></div><div>only come into play in specialist cases.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="m_24014526495948391_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Best!</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="m_24014526495948391_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Atiq</span></a></p><p></p></div></div></div></div><div id="m_24014526495948391topicbox-footer" style="margin:10px 0px 0px;border-top:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15);border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.15);padding:7px 0px">
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