Well, it might be even more of a bodge than disabling the ZIL, but how about:
- Create a 512MB ramdisk, use that for the ZIL - Buy a Micro Memory nvram PCI card for £100 or so. - Wait 3-6 months, hopefully buy a fully supported PCI-e SSD to replace the Micro Memory card. The ramdisk isn't an ideal solution, but provided you don't export the pool with it offline, it does work. We used it as a stop gap solution for a couple of weeks while waiting for a Micro Memory nvram card. Our reasoning was that our server's on a UPS and we figured if something crashed badly enough to take out something like the UPS, the motherboard, etc, we'd be loosing data anyway. We just made sure we had good backups in case the pool got corrupted and crossed our fingers. The reason I say wait 3-6 months is that there's a huge amount of activity with SSD's at the moment. Sun said that they were planning to have flash storage launched by Christmas, so I figure there's a fair chance that we'll see some supported PCIe cards by next Spring. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
