Re: ZFS melting under postgres...

From: Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:04:04 +0100
Travis Mikalson wrote:

> If you're using compact flash for something that's constantly updated
> like a ZIL, wouldn't your CF card die real quick?

Probably, for constant updates to the same areas. But as you say:

> 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?

Yes. I don't see a point writing a log that's mostly sequantially
accessed on a SSD, and which probably wears the same areas on the drive.
I'm more interested in loads like databases.


Received on Sat Dec 15 2007 - 21:04:29 UTC

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