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Setting IO scheduler for use with ZFS

If you’re using rotational hard drives, Linux’s default IO scheduler can interact very badly with ZFS’s IO scheduler, greatly reducing performance. This is further exaggerated if you have any SMR devices due to their pathological worst-case performance characteristics. I’ve found that switching to “none” (this was called “noop” historically) can improve performance by a full […]