Try an inexpensive MLC SSD (Intel/Micron) for L2ARC. Won't help metadat updates, but should boost reads.
Regards, Andrey On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Chris Banal <cba...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have a SunFire X4500 running Solaris 10U5 which does about 5-8k nfs ops > of which about 90% are meta data. In hind sight it would have been > significantly better to use a mirrored configuration but we opted for 4 x > (9+2) raidz2 at the time. We can not take the downtime necessary to change > the zpool configuration. > > We need to improve the meta data performance with little to no money. Does > anyone have any suggestions? Is there such a thing as a Sun supported NVRAM > PCI-X card compatible with the X4500 which can be used as an L2ARC? > > Thanks, > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
