Re: [zfs-discuss] slog writing patterns vs SSD tech. (was SSD's and ZFS...)

2009-07-24 Thread Kyle McDonald
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Of course, it is my understanding that the zfs slog is written sequentially so perhaps this applies instead: Actually, reading up on these drives I've started to wonder about the slog writing pattern. While these drives do seem to do a great job at random writes,

Re: [zfs-discuss] slog writing patterns vs SSD tech.

2009-07-24 Thread Miles Nordin
km == Kyle McDonald kmcdon...@egenera.com writes: km hese drives do seem to do a great job at random writes, most km of the promise shows at sequential writes, so Does the slog km attempt to write sequentially through the space given to it? when writing to the slog, some

Re: [zfs-discuss] slog writing patterns vs SSD tech. (was SSD's and ZFS...)

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Kyle McDonald wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Of course, it is my understanding that the zfs slog is written sequentially so perhaps this applies instead: Actually, reading up on these drives I've started to wonder about the slog writing pattern. While these

Re: [zfs-discuss] slog writing patterns vs SSD tech.

2009-07-24 Thread Kyle McDonald
Miles Nordin wrote: km == Kyle McDonald kmcdon...@egenera.com writes: km hese drives do seem to do a great job at random writes, most km of the promise shows at sequential writes, so Does the slog km attempt to write sequentially through the space given to it? thwack

Re: [zfs-discuss] slog writing patterns vs SSD tech.

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Kyle McDonald wrote: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531p=8 This an interesting test report. Something quite interesting for zfs is if the write rate is continually high, then the write performance will be limited by the FLASH erase performance,

Re: [zfs-discuss] slog writing patterns vs SSD tech.

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 24, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Kyle McDonald wrote: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531p=8 This an interesting test report. Something quite interesting for zfs is if the write rate is continually high, then the write