> I think you may be agonizing to much. You would have to to seriously bad > to make it slow and even then its a relative thing. > > Giving it 4GB ZIL, 8 GB swap, and 28 gb l2arc will make it rapid and cover > you for most things. Putting the swap on the 250 gig drive wont make much > difference though as like you said you wont be paging to disk much > > Put the bootblocks etc on the hd. They are only 64kb anyhow so will make > no noticable difference to the boot time. Also if your ssd dies you wont > have an unusable system (apart from a zil issue maybe)
I know I'm completely over-analyzing this. ;) But where's the fun in computers if you can't over-analyze something? I know any of the ways will *work*. (Or can be made to.) I'm just asking for the wisdom and the opinions of the internets on whether anything could be considered 'better'. So: Thanks for your thoughts. (One note: Loss of the ZIL drive should not be a problem under the patched ZFS. As of ZFS v19, the ZIL can be lost or removed without affecting the filesystem. Prior to that once you had defined a ZIL drive you needed to always have a working ZIL drive.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
