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Subject: Re: Crazy ZFS ZIL options: md(4) umass(4)
From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:00 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have thousands of small files being written most under 8KiB, they
> either end up being removed or combined in various ways to
> produce a set of data that is stored long term. I also have
> tens of 10-50MiB files similarly, but rarely. It's not fully clear
> to me the benefits of a split ZIL.


What is split ZIL?

-- 
Adam Vande More