[OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

[Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)]

> From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamobil at gmx.net]
> 
> As far as I am aware, the loss of the ZIL is no longer fatal for the pool in
> current zfs versions. As well, even with a corrupted ZIL, the pool should be
> recoverable. Hence, I was so far not worried too much. Should I better be?

If you lose your log device (and system crashes) on a current system, you don't lose your whole pool.  But you *do* lose the last few seconds of sync-writes on that pool.  So as long as you can afford that loss ...

AND you don't have any clients depending on the state of the server to remain consistent...

Then it's ok.