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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:42:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crazy ZFS ZIL options: md(4) umass(4)
Message-ID:  <127974626.3169918.1361410921874.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <CAD2Ti294qNyveJUgt=KLV9Acq%2BPGGK6LAtmNYfSAq2oCrkj6Rw@mail.gmail.com>

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grarpamp wrote:
> Still digesting this thread in free time.
> There are some articles too...
> 
> http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide
> http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide
> http://www.slideshare.net/relling/zfs-tutorial-lisa-2011
> http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2010/07/solaris-zfs-synchronous-writes-and-zil-explained
> http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2009/06/26/slog-screenshots/
> https://espix.net/~wildcat/txt/zfs-fragmentation.txt
> http://pthree.org/2012/12/06/zfs-administration-part-iii-the-zfs-intent-log/
> http://www.techforce.com.br/news/layout/set/print/linux_blog/zfs_part_4_sustained_random_small_files_sync_write_iops
> 
> Whatever happened to the old ISA ExpandedDRAM drives?
> Today, bus based internal boards given mobo support of lots of ram
> don't seem to make too much sense. But there has to be a cheap
> SATA interface version of these things... a drive tray where you can
> just stuff it with DIMMs and a battery.
> Cheap as in, am I missing an entire class of $20-$50 devices
> here? That's all they should cost in parts (minus ram), yet all I
> see are $multikilo 'enterprise' stuff. If that's really the case one
> could make them from China.
> 
Someone posted mentioning this one. ($337 isn't $20-%50, but...):
http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=382&prod_no=ANS-9010BA&type1_idno=5&ino=28

> I can't see burning up an SSD (cost) for non-enterprise use.
> I'll test with USB to expose failure modes. Will probably end up with
> RAMZIL/syncdisable or adding a 10k spindle pair.
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