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Date:      Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:45:42 +0200
From:      Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rc.d script for memory based zfs intent log
Message-ID:  <50ED3C46.4040200@digsys.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20130109031834.GA14386@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20130109023327.GA1888@FreeBSD.org> <20130109.115240.1198411557684741197.hrs@allbsd.org> <20130109031834.GA14386@FreeBSD.org>

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On 09.01.13 05:18, John wrote:
> ----- Hiroki Sato's Original Message -----
>>   Why is simply setting sync=disabled to the ZFS dataset not enough?
> As you refer to, my understanding is that sync=disabled is at the dataset
> layer. The zil approach is at the zpool layer - sync=disabled would be
> nice at the zpool layer.

A per-filesytem approach is better, because it lets you have huge zpool 
(the whole idea of ZFS) with only part of it being exported via NFS. You 
will also not risk data loss for the rest of the zpool.

Daniel



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