That's painful, thanks for the extra info! I've also found this interesting article http://nex7.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/zfs-intent-log.html - sums it up pretty well, bottom line: slog needs to be a pair.
Now just wondering whether the Intel 730 Series SSD are good enough for any production use (Zeusram is way too expensive). http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-730-series.html On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Greg Zartman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Peter Toth <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I think with later ZFS versions slog removal is supported and the pool >> stays up, not sure how this behaves with a complete slog failure though - >> possibly loose the cached data. Will do some more research on this. >> > > I can tell you that with SmartOS released a few months ago, I lost a zpool > on one of my test machines. It had a single Samsung 840pro in it. The 840 > died and the zpool disappeared. I found a good howto on the FreeNAS forums > that I used to rebuild the pool so I could remove the slog and get the box > back up. It's not the end of the world, but a bit of a pain in the arse. > Certainly not something you would want to happen on a production machine. > > Greg > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
