Create the zpool with: zpool create <name> log <dev(s)> - for the ZIL
zpool create <name> cache <dev(s)> - for the L2ARC On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com>wrote: > Gary Mills wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:08:52PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> >>> Gary Mills wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Does anyone know about this device? >>>> >>>> SESX3Y11Z 32 GB 2.5-Inch SATA Solid State Drive with Marlin Bracket >>>> for Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240 Servers, RoHS-6 >>>> Compliant >>>> >>>> This is from Sun's catalog for the T5120 server. Would this work well >>>> as a separate ZIL device for ZFS? Is there any way I could use this in >>>> a T2000 server? The brackets appear to be different. >>>> >>>> >>> The brackets are different. T2000 uses "nemo" bracket and T5120 uses >>> "marlin." For the part-number details, SunSolve is your friend. >>> >>> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SE_T5120/components >>> >>> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Systems/SunFireT2000_R/components >>> >>> >> >> I see also that no SSD is listed for the T2000. Has anyone gotten one >> to work as a separate ZIL device for ZFS? >> >> >> > > That is because T2000 is effectively EOL. You can still purchase them, > but no new engineering is being done because they are near EOL. Qualifying > new disks costs $$ for engineering, so they will decide not to do so. Like > I > said earlier, don't try to put much logic into such decisions, you will > fail > because you won't know all of the variables -- some of which have nothing > to do with what is possible. > > That said, they should work fine. There is nothing in the SSD design which > would preclude them working as well in the T2000 as any other system. > -- richard > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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