Hi Richard, On Qua, 2008-10-22 at 14:04 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > It is more important to use a separate disk, than to use a separate and fast > disk. Anecdotal evidence suggests that using a USB hard disk works > well.
While I don't necessarily disagree with your statement, please note that (as far as I'm aware) USB disks don't respect the "flush write cache" command, so in fact the disk may appear to be faster than it actually is because it's not maintaining proper transactional consistency. Cheers, Ricardo _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
