On Nov 8, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Evaldas Auryla wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to evaluate what are the risks of running NFS share of zfs dataset
> with sync=disabled property. The clients are vmware hosts in our environment
> and server is SunFire X4540 "Thor" system. Though general recommendation
> tells not to do this, but after testing performance with default setting and
> sync=disabled - it's night and day, so it's really tempting to do
> sync=disabled ! Thanks for any suggestion.
The risks are, any changes your software clients expect to be written to disk
-- after having gotten a confirmation that they did get written -- might not
actually be written if the server crashes or loses power for some reason.
You should consider a high performance low-latency SSD (doesn't have to be very
big) as an SLOG… it will do a lot for your performance without having to give
up the commit guarantees that you lose with sync=disabled.
Of course, if the data isn't precious to you, then running with sync=disabled
is probably ok. But if you love your data, don't do it.
- Garrett
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