Albert Chin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:01:50AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: >> Albert Chin wrote: >>> Some of the Sun storage arrays contain NVRAM. It would be really nice >>> if the array NVRAM would be available for ZIL storage. It would also >>> be nice for extra hardware (PCI-X, PCIe card) that added NVRAM storage >>> to various sun low/mid-range servers that are currently acting as >>> ZFS/NFS servers. Or maybe someone knows of cheap SSD storage that >>> could be used for the ZIL? I think several HD's are available with >>> SCSI/ATA interfaces. >> First, you need a workload where the ZIL has an impact. > > ZFS/NFS + zil_disable is faster than ZFS/NFS without zil_disable. So, > I presume, ZFS/NFS + an NVRAM-backed ZIL would be noticeably faster > than ZFS/NFS + ZIL.
... for NFS workloads which are sync-sensitive. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
