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Cc: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>,
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Subject: Re: Help ZFS FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 Write performance issue
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Scott Ullrich <sullrich@gmail.com> writes:
> Indeed.   I mirrored 2 SSDs on an Areca in case I loose one of them.

You can also use a ZFS mirror for the zil:

# zpool add pool_name log mirror ssd0 ssd1

in which case you can replace ssd0 or ssd1 as usual should one of them
fail.

DES
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