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Date:      Thu, 12 May 2011 09:58:04 +0100
From:      krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?=C5=A0imun_Mikecin?= <numisemis@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS: How to enable cache and logs.
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2011/5/12 =C5=A0imun Mikecin <numisemis@gmail.com>

>
> On 12. svi. 2011., at 08:44, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
>
> > On 12.05.11 05:26, Danny Carroll wrote:
> >>
> >>  - Don't use SSD for the Log device.  Write speed tends to be a proble=
m.
> > It all depends on your usage. You need to experiment, unfortunately.
>
> What is the alternative for log devices if you are not using SSD?
> Rotating hard drives?
>
> AFAIK, two factors define the speed of log device: write transfer rate an=
d
> write latency.
> You will not find a rotating hard drive that has a write latency anything
> near the write latency of even a slowest SSD you can find on the market.
> On the other hand, only a very few rotating hard drives have a write
> transfer rate that can be compared to SSD's.
>
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ive seen an interesting article using 2x ram disks on two separate computer=
s
(UPS backed) shared out via iscsi over a high speed network. It had very
successful results. Sounds a bit brave in a production environment to me
though



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