[OpenIndiana-discuss] (probably) Stupid question regarding Iscsi

[Jonathan Adams]

what is the 440Mb file that you've transferred? is it easily compressed?

On 6 January 2012 10:51, Open Indiana <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:
> I have a rather stupid question i guess..
>
> The following is the case
> 1. I have a 100GB iscsi target created at my homeserver within OpeinIndiana
> 2. the zfs drive has lzo compression enabled
> 3. I have OpenVPN running on this homeserver
> 4. I have connected my laptop via OpenVPN to my homeserver
> 5. Transmissionspeed to the internet from my laptop's point of view is
> 2048kb SDSL
> 6. I created a new NTFS drive (E:) on my laptop via de iscsi initiator
> (windows 7 pro) that points to my homeserver.
> 7. I just saved a 440 MB file within 1 minute to the new E: drive
>
> Although windows told me within 1 minute that it had transferred the data
> and closed the pop-up screen I remain wondering how long it takes before the
> file really is transferred to my homeserver (is cached somewhere?) . Or is
> it really transferred that fast? (approx 50MB/s Windows reported)
>
> stmfadm list-lu -v
> LU Name: 600144F023A1040000004F06CC190001
>    Operational Status: Online
>    Provider Name     : sbd
>    Alias             : /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/iscsi
>    View Entry Count  : 1
>    Data File         : /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/iscsi
>    Meta File         : not set
>    Size              : 107374182400
>    Block Size        : 512
>    Management URL    : not set
>    Vendor ID         : OI
>    Product ID        : COMSTAR
>    Serial Num        : not set
>    Write Protect     : Disabled
>    Writeback Cache   : Enabled
>    Access State      : Active
>
>
>
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