[zfs-discuss] How to verify if the ZIL is disabled

2009-09-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
How can I verify if the ZIL has been disabled or not? I am trying to see how much benefit I might get by using an SSD as a ZIL. I disabled the ZIL via the ZFS Evil Tuning Guide: echo zil_disable/W0t1 | mdb -kw and then rebooted. However, I do not see any benefits for my NFS workload. Thanks,

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify if the ZIL is disabled

2009-09-23 Thread Neil Perrin
On 09/23/09 10:59, Scott Meilicke wrote: How can I verify if the ZIL has been disabled or not? I am trying to see how much benefit I might get by using an SSD as a ZIL. I disabled the ZIL via the ZFS Evil Tuning Guide: echo zil_disable/W0t1 | mdb -kw - this only temporarily disables the

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify if the ZIL is disabled

2009-09-23 Thread Roch Bourbonnais
Le 23 sept. 09 à 19:07, Neil Perrin a écrit : On 09/23/09 10:59, Scott Meilicke wrote: How can I verify if the ZIL has been disabled or not? I am trying to see how much benefit I might get by using an SSD as a ZIL. I disabled the ZIL via the ZFS Evil Tuning Guide: echo zil_disable/W0t1

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify if the ZIL is disabled

2009-09-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
Thank you both, much appreciated. I ended up having to put the flag into /etc/system. When I disabled the ZIL and umount/mounted without a reboot, my ESX host would not see the NFS export, nor could I create a new NFS connection from my ESX host. I could get into the file system from the host

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify if the ZIL is disabled

2009-09-23 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 23 September, 2009 - Scott Meilicke sent me these 0,5K bytes: Thank you both, much appreciated. I ended up having to put the flag into /etc/system. When I disabled the ZIL and umount/mounted without a reboot, my ESX host would not see the NFS export, nor could I create a new NFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to verify if the ZIL is disabled

2009-09-23 Thread Scott Meilicke
zfs share -a Ah-ha! Thanks. FYI, I got between 2.5x and 10x improvement in performance, depending on the test. So tempting :) -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org