On Tue, Jan 20 at  9:04, Richard Elling wrote:
>
> Yes.  And I think there are many more use cases which are not
> yet characterized.  What we do know is that using an SSD for
> the separate ZIL log works very well for a large number of cases.
> It is not clear to me that the efforts to characterize a large
> number of cases is worthwhile, when we can simply throw an SSD
> at the problem and solve it.
>  -- richard
>

I think the issue is, like a previous poster discovered, there's not a
lot of available data on exact performance changes of adding ZIL/L2ARC
devices in a variety of workloads, so people wind up spending money
and doing lots of trial and error, without clear expectations of
whether their modifications are working or not.


-- 
Eric D. Mudama
edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org

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