On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:01:50AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > Albert Chin wrote: > > Some of the Sun storage arrays contain NVRAM. It would be really nice > > if the array NVRAM would be available for ZIL storage. It would also > > be nice for extra hardware (PCI-X, PCIe card) that added NVRAM storage > > to various sun low/mid-range servers that are currently acting as > > ZFS/NFS servers. Or maybe someone knows of cheap SSD storage that > > could be used for the ZIL? I think several HD's are available with > > SCSI/ATA interfaces. > > First, you need a workload where the ZIL has an impact.
ZFS/NFS + zil_disable is faster than ZFS/NFS without zil_disable. So, I presume, ZFS/NFS + an NVRAM-backed ZIL would be noticeably faster than ZFS/NFS + ZIL. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
