Sean Meighan writes: > The vi we were doing was a 2 line file. If you just vi a new file, add > one line and exit it would take 15 minutes in fdsynch. On recommendation > of a workaround we set > > set zfs:zil_disable=1 > > after the reboot the fdsynch is now < 0.1 seconds. Now I have no idea if it > was this setting or the fact that we went through a reboot. Whatever the > root cause we are now back to a well behaved file system.
well behaved...In appearance only ! Maybe it's nice to validate hypothesis but you should not run with this option set, ever., it disable O_DSYNC and fsync() and I don't know what else. Bad idea, bad. -r bad. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
