On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:15:12PM +0200, Jesus Cea wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17/09/12 20:08, Andrew Haycock wrote: > > Well, I lie, there are a couple of questions but I don't think > > they're too taxing. My concern with the ZIL being located on the > > SSD was not speed, but drive wear. If ZIL is written too a lot is a > > 4GB partition enough? Would an i-RAM solution be better? > > ZIL SSD is only written for SYNCHRONOUS writes. For most workloads, > the huge mayority of writes would be asynchronous, except special > cases like databases and mailservers.
Small NFS writes (like backing up many small files) pounds the ZIL. My Mac-to-server happiness increased greatly when I put that ZIL into place. Dan ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
