We have a server using Solaris 10. It's a pair of systems with a shared J4200, with Solaris cluster. It works very nicely. Solaris cluster switches over transparently.
However as an NFS server it is dog-slow. This is the usual synchronous write problem. Setting zfs_disable fixes the problem. otherwise it can take more than an hour to copy files that take me 2 min with our netapp. The obvious solution is to use a flash disk for the ZIL. However I'm clueless what hardware to use. Can anyone suggest either a flash drive that will work in the J4200 (SATA), or some way to connect a drive to two machines so that Solaris cluster will work? Sun used to claim that they were going to support a flash drive in the J4200. How that statement seems to have disappeared, and their SATA flash drive seems to be vapor, despite appearing real on the Sun web site. (I tried to order one.) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
