On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Janne Peltonen wrote:
>> If you feel that your filesystem/buffercache will do a good job at
>> writing things out to disk, and you've got battery-backed cache on
>> your storage, you should be relatively well off.
>
> But if I were to turn skiplist_unsafe on, and the OS crashed
> I enabled it a few weeks ago before I left UMBC, and it certainly
> seemed to help write performance on the ZFS pool -- we started seeing
> the larger batched writes on those devices, instead of a constant
> stream of itty bity IOs caused by the constant fsync'ing.
>
> If you feel that you
I enabled it a few weeks ago before I left UMBC, and it certainly
seemed to help write performance on the ZFS pool -- we started seeing
the larger batched writes on those devices, instead of a constant
stream of itty bity IOs caused by the constant fsync'ing.
If you feel that your filesyste
