----- Original Message ----- > On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 09:42 -0700, Orvar Korvar wrote: > > Are there any drawbacks to partition a SSD in two parts and use > > L2ARC on one partition, and ZIL on the other? Any thoughts? > > Its probably a reasonable approach. The ZIL can be fairly small... > only > about 8 GB is probably sufficient for most typical uses. (Even 4GB > would be a win in most cases. :-)
Half of RAM is maximum, and unless you have write intensive jobs, 1GB will probably suffice for most use, but then, it depends on your workload. The ZIL is flushed every, what, 10 seconds?, so if you have >1GB writes per 10 seconds, you want >1GB SLOG. At least, that's theory. Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
