> 2 x 500GB mirrored root pool > 6 x 1TB raidz2 data pool > I happen to have 2 x 250GB Western Digital RE3 7200rpm > be better than having the ZIL 'inside' the zpool.
listing two log devices (stripe) would have more spindles than your single raidz2 vdev.. but for low cost fun one might make a tinny slice on all the disks of the raidz2 and list six log devices (6 way stripe) and not bother adding the other two disks. Rob _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss