On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > > Just thinking out loud here, but given such a disk (i.e. one which is > bigger than required), I might be inclined to slice it up, creating a > slice for the log at the outer edge of the disk. The outer edge of the > disk has the highest data rate, and by effectively constraining the head > movement to only a portion of the whole disk, average seek times should > be significantly improved (not to mention fewer seeks due to more > data/cylinder at the outer edge). The log can't be using the write
This is good thinking but it is likely that the zfs implementors were already aware of this so zfs likely already does what you want without this extra work. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
