Great question. In "good enough" computing, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. My home NAS appliance uses IDE and SATA drives withoutba dedicated ZIL
http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2010/11/15/zil-analysis-from-chris-george/ "if HDDs and commodity SSDs continue to be target ZIL devices, ZFS could and should do more to ensure that writes are sequential." On 23 Dec 2010, at 10:25, Stephan Budach <stephan.bud...@jvm.de> wrote: > Hi, > > as I have learned from the discussion about which SSD to use as ZIL drives, I > stumbled across this article, that discusses short stroking for increasing > IOPs on SAS and SATA drives: > > http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157.html > > Now, I am wondering if using a mirror of such 15k SAS drives would be a > good-enough fit for a ZIL on a zpool that is mainly used for file services > via AFP and SMB. > I'd particulary like to know, if someone has already used such a solution and > how it has worked out. > > Cheers, > budy > > > -- > Stephan Budach > Jung von Matt/it-services GmbH > Glashüttenstraße 79 > 20357 Hamburg > > Tel: +49 40-4321-1353 > Fax: +49 40-4321-1114 > E-Mail: stephan.bud...@jvm.de > Internet: http://www.jvm.com > > Geschäftsführer: Ulrich Pallas, Frank Wilhelm > AG HH HRB 98380 > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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