Re: [OmniOS-discuss] speeding up file access

2015-03-04 Thread Matthew Lagoe
] speeding up file access I also have a USB connector and a SD connector on the mobo of my server (Proliant ML100 G7) and I never found any good use for them. The best I could think of is doing a local backup of /etc and of the other config dirs. Concerning CrashPlan: I also use it, are you

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] speeding up file access

2015-03-04 Thread Michael Mounteney
Thanks to Doug and Chip for the replies. On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:17:50 -0600 "Schweiss, Chip" wrote: > [...] > > If it's just a home server set up some frequent snapshots and turn > sync off. You may have to throw away the most recent writes in the > case of a power failure, but your performanc

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] speeding up file access

2015-03-04 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I also have a USB connector and a SD connector on the mobo of my server (Proliant ML100 G7) and I never found any good use for them. The best I could think of is doing a local backup of /etc and of the other config dirs. Concerning CrashPlan: I also use it, are you aware that they cut support fo

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] speeding up file access

2015-03-04 Thread Schweiss, Chip
No USB flash is going to bring any benefit to the game as a log device. If it has any ram cache to increase write performance, it's useless as a log device because it will not have any power protection for the ram. Most likely it will not have any RAM and write performance will be poor. Decent l

[OmniOS-discuss] speeding up file access

2015-03-03 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello list; this is a very basic question about ZFS performance from someone with limited sysadmin knowledge. I've seen various messages about ZILs and caching and noticed that my Supermicro 5017C-LF (http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5017/SYS-5017C-LF.cfm). This has a single USB socke