Here the result of a little benchmark I made while 2005's Christmas. Note zfs is more or less
still under development.

^ Version | Solaris Express build 27 |
^ Platform | x86 |
^ Processor | AMD Athlon (at 1200Mhz) |
^ Memory | 512MB |
^ Disk | One IDE disk |
^ Storage | One slice dedicated |
^ Tool | [[http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/|Bonnie++ version 1.03]] |

I use exactly the same physical region for both ZFS, UFS. Though, while I made test with ZFS, I had more data
(not sure there is an impact).


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As you can see, UFS is better than ZFS in read/write operation, while ZFS have really better result in create operations.

The whole result of bonnie++ benchmark is available [[http://asyd.net/misc/zfs-vs-ufs.html|here]].

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