On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Toby Corkindale
<toby(dot)corkindale(at)strategicdata(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> The zpool was created against an LVM logical volume (which was the same one
> used for all the filesystems measured in the tests). That LV was itself part
> of a volume group that was striped over three disks (Western Digital
> WD1003FBYX).
So you're throwing in the complication of a logical volume manager
interfering with zfs. If you put ZFS on three separate drives, it has
a better chance of optimizing its operations.