Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-27 Thread v
Thanks for your replies. Regards Victor -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-27 Thread Roch
v writes: > Hi, > A basic question regarding how zil works: > For asynchronous write, will zil be used? > For synchronous write, and if io is small, will the whole io be place on > zil? or just the pointer be save into zil? what about large size io? > Let me try. ZIL : code and data stru

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-21 Thread Christopher George
Here is another very recent blog post from ConstantThinking: http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2010/07/solaris-zfs-synchronous-writes-and-zil-explained Very well done, a highly recommended read. Christopher George Founder/CTO www.ddrdrive.com -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of v > > For synchronous write, and if io is small, will the whole io be place > on zil? or just the pointer be save into zil? what about large size io? This one doesn't have a really clear answer

Re: [zfs-discuss] How does zil work

2010-07-20 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 20, 2010, at 3:09 AM, v wrote: > Hi, > A basic question regarding how zil works: The seminal blog on how the ZIL works is http://blogs.sun.com/perrin/entry/the_lumberjack > For asynchronous write, will zil be used? No. > For synchronous write, and if io is small, will the whole io be p