Well, not knowing a lot about these, but if the flash stick is based on SSD, then it might work well, but if its just a standard USB key rebundled as a eSATA disk, maybe not...
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 04:21:13PM +0000, Tiernan OToole wrote: > > This might be a stupid question, but here goes... Would adding, say, 4 4 > or 8gb usb keys as a zil make enough of a difference for writes on an iscsi > shared vol? > > > > I am finding reads are not too bad (40is mb/s over gige on 2 500gb drives > stripped) but writes top out at about 10 and drop a lot lower... If I where > to add a couple usb keys for zil, would it make a difference? > > Speaking of which, is there a point in using an eSATA flash stick? > If yes, which? > > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- Tiernan O'Toole blog.lotas-smartman.net www.tiernanotoolephotography.com www.the-hairy-one.com
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