Yup, I'm watching that card closely. No Solaris drivers yet, but hopefully
somebody will realise just how good that could be for the ZIL and work on some.
Just the 80GB $2,400 card would make a huge difference to write performance.
For use with VMware and NFS it would be a godsend.
This me
Infact using NVRam in a JBOD is less safe as most of the Jbods that use
NvRam have only one NvRam not being mirrored.
Therefore if NvRam goes bad you quarantee inconsistancy. However ZFS is
finetuned in every layer for all or nothing commit kind of working.
Therefore ZFs have the internal mechanis
Chris Cosby gmail.com> writes:
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> You're backing up 40TB+ of data, increasing at 20-25% per year.
> That's insane.
Over time, backing up his data will require _fewer_ and fewer disks.
Disk sizes increase by about 40% every year.
-marc
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Chris Cosby wrote:
>I'm going down a bit of a different path with my reply here. I know that all
>shops and their need for data are different, but hear me out.
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>1) You're backing up 40TB+ of data, increasing at 20-25% per year. That's
>insane. Perhaps it's time to look at your backup strategy no
