Hi Ian,

thanks for your message. It's an Intel SSD:

UNKNOWN c3t0d0                  INTEL    SSDSC2BA100G3      93.16 GiB   no  yes

So you'd suggest abandoning the cache and using the whole device as log 
(currently it's both)? Did I understand you correctly here?

Thanks
Manuel

> On 21.07.2015, at 10:54, Ian Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [email protected] wrote:
>> Hi everybody!
>> 
>> My SSD cache partition has a (obviously wrong) size of 16E. More worrying to 
>> me is, however, that alloc is more than twice the size. I saw this was fixed 
>> in https://www.illumos.org/issues/5701; yet I'm still seeing this. Is it 
>> related to the fact, that I'm using partitions on the same SSD?
>> 
>> Second question: the budget and hardware permits only one SSD, which I'm 
>> using for both log and cache. What's your stand on this - I did a lot of 
>> reading, but didn't get a clear picture of how bad it is...
> 
> If you are running KVM VMs, use the SSD as a log device.  You don't say what 
> SSD type you have, but if you are running anything you can't afford to loose, 
> it should have power failure protection.
> 
> --
> Ian.
> 


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