On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:08:08PM -0400, Doug Hughes wrote:
> On 9/18/2011 8:47 PM, Luke S. Crawford wrote:
> >On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:17:26AM -0700, Anton Cohen wrote:
> >>To sum it up, I'd trust consumer SSDs in my laptop, I'd trust them for
> >>L2ARC, I wouldn't trust them as primary storage for critical data like
> >>an Oracle database.
> >
> >
> >But not the ZIL, right?   or is there a way to mirror SSDs for a ZIL?
> >
> 
> has been since update 6. zpool add zpool1 log mirror <dev1> <dev2>
> 
> I typically carve off a slice on my SSD for ZIL that's about 8G each and 
> then let the rest be used for OS.

Sweet!  thanks for the info.  Why only 8G?   I mean, my systems are pretty 
much being constantly written to in a very random manner;  unrolling that 
into sequential writes, which I believe is what a ZIL does, would be 
a huge win.  
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