Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:08:49 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Separate ZIL on Root Message-ID: <42BA9412-33DD-42DB-9D59-E02843ED4418@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1392865768.15134.85531273.410FC394@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <743B7655-C13E-425B-96E1-A63611FBA043@gsoft.com.au> <1392865768.15134.85531273.410FC394@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 20 Feb 2014, at 13:39, Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014, at 1:19, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> So, does anyone know if there is a real problem or a hold over from >> Solaris? >> > > It works just fine but it might not be "recommended". I run it on a few > boxes, Glen on many. Just remove the bootfs flag from the root zpool, > add the zil, and then add the boot flag back. I think this was more > dangerous when the loss of a zil was a serious matter, but isn't such a > concern anymore. Someone else will probably fill in details or correct > me on these points :-) Can you just do a few writes and then mash the power switch for test purposes? That'd be grand ;) It looks like it is doable and if it does stuff up I will have some company :) Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iD8DBQFTBXjJ5ZPcIHs/zowRAsmJAKCP1+DWwI8KkNt9ovKLDE0WVxoRmACfZoYI MoXOBnD2OORiVgwp66ic4gg= =azpy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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