> On Jan 31, 2016, at 2:59 PM, Ian Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Richard Elling wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jan 28, 2016, at 1:09 AM, Ian Collins <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It isn't usually a good idea to put both log and cache on the same SSD. 
>>> Unless you are using your SmartOS box as file server, ditch the cache and 
>>> just use a log device, the whole SSD, not a partition. It also isn't a good 
>>> idea to use an SSD without power fail protection for a log.
>> 
>> FWIW, this is becoming less true as SSDs improve. In the bad old days, some 
>> SSDs were much better
>> at write-intensive workloads (orders of magnitude). Today, there are many 
>> SSDs that do well for both
>> read and write-intensive workloads and the difference between 
>> write-intensities is the amount of OOB
>> overprovisioning. Since you can usually influence overprovisioning yourself, 
>> this reduces the need for
>> separate devices.
> 
> I assume that you would still recommend against using SSDs without power fail 
> protection for log devices?

My requirements in preferred order:
1. honor synchronize cache commands
2. power loss protection

 — richard


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