On 16/12/2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no> wrote: > Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_freebsd.org> writes: > > These are all "normal" CompactFlash cards, for which the widely > > available size seems to be 16 GB max, right? > > So? That's more than enough for a ZFS intent log (as a rule of thumb, > the ZIL should be half the size of the server's RAM). Why do you consider ZIL to be a good candidate for putting on a SSD? Isn't it sequential-access mostly? > > Did you (or anyone) deploy CF drives for production servers? > > My router (and DNS, NTP and DHCP server) is a net4801 with a 1 GB CF > chip. Ok, these are probably embedded appliances that don't get much storage traffic. I was thinking about different kind of servers - database, web or file servers.Received on Sun Dec 16 2007 - 13:57:55 UTC
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