On Nov 13, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

> Log devices are generally write-only.  They are only read during boot, after 
> an ungraceful crash.  It is extremely difficult to get a significant number 
> of GB used on the log device, because they are flushed out to primary storage 
> so frequently.  They are not read when you do a scrub.

This is wrong. We do read ZIL blocks when scrubbing, as you for example can 
have a filesystem with non-empty ZIL which is not mounted.

regards
victor
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