Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:52:45 +0400 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS-inly server and dedicated ZIL Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304161250360.89522@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <516CE8A0.3070808@digsys.bg> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304101713530.38433@woozle.rinet.ru> <D416AA98-D78A-4743-A1E6-AA2C28B9A602@bway.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304121342090.58348@woozle.rinet.ru> <516CE8A0.3070808@digsys.bg>
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > As already mentioned, multiple vdev zpool for root works just fine on FreeBSD. Yes, but not pools with dedicated ZIL, as I cited from sources: zpool just does not allow to add ZIL to boot pool > There is however one "restriction" -- all of the drives should be visible as > BIOS drives at boot. If your BIOS (HBA SAS BIOS) supports that, then you > should not expect problems. > > Just make sure you test it with all the drives, before you build the pool. I think I'll drift to UFS mirrored /boot I suppose, as I did for several servers already > On the other hand, using the same SSD for SLOG and L2ARC is not always good > idea because those two have quite opposite requirements. I know, but price and drive count restrictions do apply as well :) -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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