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 place on zil? 
> or just the pointer be save into zil? what about large size io?

Yes :-)
In recent releases, there is better control over this behaviour.  Roch sums
up the logbias property at
http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/synchronous_write_bias_property

 -- richard

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