Aaah, that makes sense :) If it's just performance you're after for small writes, I wonder if you've considered putting the ZIL on an NVRAM card? It looks like this can give something like a 20x performance increase in some situations:
http://blogs.sun.com/perrin/entry/slog_blog_or_blogging_on >From what I've read of the ZIL, it degrades gracefully when the NVRAM is full >too, reverting to storing the log in the main pool. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss