Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

2012-06-05 Thread Nick Hall
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jan Owoc wrote: > > The data on the main pool is always consistent in that a certain > operation either made it to the disk or it didn't. However, if your > application depends on the fact that writes make it out to disk in a > specific order (that's why it's sync

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

2012-06-04 Thread Nick Hall
I'm considering buying a separate SSD drive for my ZIL as I do quite a bit over NFS and would like the latency to improve. But first I'm trying to understand exactly how the ZIL works and what happens in case of a problem. I'll list my understanding here, and I'm hoping someone can correct me if I'