From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 15 22:04:29 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EBC16A418 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:04:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72B113C45D for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:04:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J3f7L-0004H5-Nc for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:04:19 +0000 Received: from 78-0-75-218.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.0.75.218]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:04:19 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 78-0-75-218.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:04:19 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:04:04 +0100 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <47606C09.2070209@isc.org> <47609F0A.7010805@clearchain.com> <47609FE3.8040606@barafranca.com> <4760B444.1080604@clearchain.com> <06CAC7FC-DB58-441D-A6E0-76D1D8133393@tamu.edu> <86ir31xwlu.fsf@ds4.des.no> <476343B4.8080208@FreeBSD.org> <86tzmk54tt.fsf@ds4.des.no> <476419CD.9070401@terranova.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE571A66D14994A69A6948C4D" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-0-75-218.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <476419CD.9070401@terranova.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Sender: news Subject: Re: ZFS melting under postgres... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:04:29 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE571A66D14994A69A6948C4D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Travis Mikalson wrote: > If you're using compact flash for something that's constantly updated > like a ZIL, wouldn't your CF card die real quick? Probably, for constant updates to the same areas. But as you say: > Since a ZIL is not really seek-intensive, why not just offload it to it= s > own standard hard disk that has its write caching and all other similar= > data-corrupting technologies disabled? Yes. I don't see a point writing a log that's mostly sequantially accessed on a SSD, and which probably wears the same areas on the drive. I'm more interested in loads like databases. --------------enigE571A66D14994A69A6948C4D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHZE9UldnAQVacBcgRAttjAKCi57CQrhxt+0dheuDutvtorBvkRQCfSdvS IvAmoqkHHD5u/Y7JLeIv4yY= =vdYd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE571A66D14994A69A6948C4D--