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> Since a ZIL is not really seek-intensive, why not just offload it to its
> own standard hard disk that has its write caching and all other similar
> data-corrupting technologies disabled?

Because it is still *latency* "intensive". Having fsync() be fast is often=
=20
important.

=2D-=20
/ Peter Schuller

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