Re: ZFS on a notebook/512M settings

From: Craig Boston <craig_at_xfoil.gank.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:01:13 -0500
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:42:31PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> Let me explain what disabling ZIL really means. Once ZIL is disabled,
> fsync(2) is a no-op, ie. calling fsync(2) on a descriptor doesn't mean
> your data would be safely stored on disk at the time function returns.
> There is no data corruption for local use, only this fsync(2) problem.
> 
> "Data corruption" can happen from NFS client point of view, when your
> ZFS file system is exported over NFS and your NFS server crashes.

Does this increase the window after an fsync is performed that a crash
or power loss will lose recent changes?  That's what I got from reading
the descriptions of ZIL, perhaps "corruption" was a poor choice of
words.

Craig
Received on Thu Jul 26 2007 - 12:01:14 UTC

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