Re: [zfs-discuss] Q: zfs log device

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Ozolins
Mark J Musante wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, John Hoogerdijk wrote: i've setup a RAIDZ2 pool with 5 SATA drives and added a 32GB SSD log device. to see how well it works, i ran bonnie++, but never saw any io's on the log device (using iostat -nxce) . pool status is good - no issues or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Q: zfs log device

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Ozolins
John Hoogerdijk wrote: so i guess there is some porting to do - no O_DIRECT in solaris... anyone have bonnie++ 1.03e ported already? For your purposes, couldn't you replace O_DIRECT with O_SYNC as a hack? If you're trying to benchmark the log device, the important thing is to generate

Re: [zfs-discuss] 15 minute fdsync problem and ZFS: Solved

2006-06-21 Thread Jason Ozolins
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 14:15, Neil Perrin wrote: Of course we would need to stress the dangers of setting 'deferred'. What do you guys think? I can think of a use case for deferred: improving the efficiency of a large mega-transaction/batch job such as a nightly build.