Bob Friesenhan wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Saxon, Will wrote: >> When I read this I thought that it kind of eliminated Sandforce >> drives from consideration as SLOG devices, which is a pity because >> the OCZ Vertex 2 EX or Vertex 2 Pro SAS otherwise look like good >> candidates.
> For obvious reasons, the SLOG is designed to write sequentially. > Otherwise it would offer much less benefit. Maybe this random-write > issue with Sandforce would not be a problem? The observation was that the Sandforce controllers perform more poorly than others when sequentially writing highly random data, not with random writes of 'normal' data. -Will _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss