On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Hernan F wrote: > Hi, > Out of pure curiosity, I was wondering, what would happen if one tries to use > a regular 7200RPM (or 10K) drive as slog or L2ARC (or both)?
My rule of thumb is that if the latency of the slog (write latency) or L2ARC (random read) is 10x better than the pool devices, then go for it. There are some cases where a fast HDD can have lower read or write latency than a slow HDD (or Marty's USB disk :-) -- 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
