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 -- Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com +1-760-896-4422 Enterprise class storage for everyone www.nexenta.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss