Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-12-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nsloo...@gmail.com] I would suggest that on smaller systems you wouldn't bother messing with the ZIL :) It doesn't matter how big or small the system is. It matters how it's used. If you have a small database server, and some other database clients on the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-12-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] As far as I am aware, the loss of the ZIL is no longer fatal for the pool in current zfs versions. As well, even with a corrupted ZIL, the pool should be recoverable. Hence, I was so far not worried too much. Should I better be? If you

[OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Hi, I have bought and installed an Intel SSD 313 20 GB to use as ZIL for one or many pools. I am running openindiana on a x86 platform, no SPARC. As 4 GB should suffice, I am considering to partition the drive in order to assign each partition to one pool (ATM pools are 2 on the Server, but I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-29 12:43, Sebastian Gabler wrote: I have bought and installed an Intel SSD 313 20 GB to use as ZIL for one or many pools. I am running openindiana on a x86 platform, no SPARC. As 4 GB should suffice, I am considering to partition the drive in order to assign each partition to one pool

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] I have bought and installed an Intel SSD 313 20 GB to use as ZIL for one or many pools. I am running openindiana on a x86 platform, no SPARC. As 4 GB should suffice, I am considering to partition the drive in order to assign each

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Sebastian Gabler
] slicing a disk for ZIL Message-ID: 50b75948.5060...@cos.ru Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 2012-11-29 12:43, Sebastian Gabler wrote: I have bought and installed an Intel SSD 313 20 GB to use as ZIL for one or many pools. I am running openindiana on a x86 platform

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Michael Hase
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] I have bought and installed an Intel SSD 313 20 GB to use as ZIL for one or many pools. I am running openindiana on a x86 platform, no SPARC. As 4 GB should suffice, I am

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-29 15:59, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] I have bought and installed an Intel SSD 313 20 GB to use as ZIL for one or many pools. I am running openindiana on a x86 platform, no SPARC. As 4 GB should suffice, I am considering

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 29 November 2012 15:27, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: On 2012-11-29 15:59, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net] snip The better thing is to swallow and accept 60G wasted on your slog device. It's not there for storage capacity -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Jim Klimov
: -- Message: 7 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:47:04 +0100 From: Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL Message-ID: 50b75948.5060...@cos.ru Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 29.11.2012 16:48, schrieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: Beware, the intel 313 ssd seems to have no power loss protection: http://ark.intel.com/products/66290/Intel-SSD-313-Series-24GB-mSATA-3Gbs-25nm-SLC zil is relying on this feature. (from Michael) and Anyhow, if at all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

2012-11-29 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-29 17:29, Sebastian Gabler wrote: The data that will be affected are for test databases. As far as I am aware, the loss of the ZIL is no longer fatal for the pool in current zfs versions. As well, even with a corrupted ZIL, the pool should be recoverable. Hence, I was so far not