On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:36:28PM -0700, Gregory Gee wrote: > Jim, that ACARD looks really nice, but out of the price range for a > home server. > > Edward, disabling ZIL might be ok, but let me characterize what my > home server does and tell me if disabling ZIL is ok. > > My home OpenSolaris server is only used for storage. I have a > separate linux box that runs any software I need such as media > servers and such. I export all pools from the OpenSolaris box to the > linux box via NFS. > > The OpenSolaris box has 2 pools. The first pool stores videos, > pictures, various files and mail all exported via NFS to the linux > box. It is a mirrored zpool. The second mirrored zpool is NFS store > for VM images. The linux box I mentioned are actually VMs running in > XenServer. The VM vdisks are stored and run from the OpenSolaris NFS > server mounted in the XenServer box. > > Yes, I know that this is not a typical home setup, but I'm sure that > most here don't have a 'typical home setup'. > > So the question is, will disabling ZIL have negative impacts on the > VM vdisks stored in NFS? Or any other files on the NFS shares?
You would probably see better performance at the expense of reliability in the case of an unplanned outage. Ray _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
