Re: ZFS melting under postgres...

From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller_at_infidyne.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:36:25 +0100
> 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?

Because it is still *latency* "intensive". Having fsync() be fast is often 
important.

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