Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-27 Thread Roch
v writes: Hi, A basic question regarding how zil works: For asynchronous write, will zil be used? For synchronous write, and if io is small, will the whole io be place on zil? or just the pointer be save into zil? what about large size io? Let me try. ZIL : code and data structure

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-27 Thread v
Thanks for your replies. Regards Victor -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of v For synchronous write, and if io is small, will the whole io be place on zil? or just the pointer be save into zil? what about large size io? This one doesn't have a really clear answer.

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-21 Thread Christopher George
Here is another very recent blog post from ConstantThinking: http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2010/07/solaris-zfs-synchronous-writes-and-zil-explained Very well done, a highly recommended read. Christopher George Founder/CTO www.ddrdrive.com -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-20 Thread v
Hi, A basic question regarding how zil works: For asynchronous write, will zil be used? For synchronous write, and if io is small, will the whole io be place on zil? or just the pointer be save into zil? what about large size io? Regards Victor -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-20 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 20, 2010, at 3:09 AM, v wrote: Hi, A basic question regarding how zil works: The seminal blog on how the ZIL works is http://blogs.sun.com/perrin/entry/the_lumberjack For asynchronous write, will zil be used? No. For synchronous write, and if io is small, will the whole io be