Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD and ZFS

2010-02-16 Thread Tracey Bernath
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:08:52PM -0600, Tracey Bernath wrote: > > Now, to add the second SSD ZIL/L2ARC for a mirror. > > Just be clear: mirror ZIL by all means, but don't mirror l2arc, just > add more devices an

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD and ZFS

2010-02-15 Thread Tracey Bernath
on it was <$1000 for the whole setup? Bah-ha-ha-ha. Tracey On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Tracey Bernath wrote: > OK, that was the magic incantation I was looking for: > - changing the noprefetch option opened the floodgates to the L2ARC > - changing the max queue depth reli

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD and ZFS

2010-02-14 Thread Tracey Bernath
OK, that was the magic incantation I was looking for: - changing the noprefetch option opened the floodgates to the L2ARC - changing the max queue depth relived the wait time on the drives, although I may undo this again in the benchmarking since these drives all have NCQ I went from all four di

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD and ZFS

2010-02-13 Thread Tracey Bernath
che, and writes to the ZIL? I have a seocnd identical SSD I > wanted to add as a mirror, but it seems pointless if there's no zip to be > had > > The most likely reason is that this workload has been identified as > streaming > by ZFS, which is prefetching from di