[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On 05/31/11 17:35, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:17 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>> I hava better performance with files instead of zvols.
> 
> Now that is interesting...

there are two factors that you may want to look at:

 1) block size.  files default to a 128K allocation block size, while
zvols default to 8K.

 2) check the "sync" property; the zvol may be generating synchronous
writes while I/O to the file isn't.