[OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Matt Clark wrote:

> Yes, it's interesting to consider the possible real world 
> performance.  ZIL writes, even by DDRDrive's stats, are very closely 
> clustered around the tail of the ZIL, with most seeks being to near 
> locations - it's certainly not going to seek more than 8 gig away. 
> So probably just leaving it at one big partition would be fine too.

The ZIL is not used for anything but to replay pending synchronous 
writes if the system unexpectedly reboots.  It is not used as a source 
of data while the system is running.  It is normally a write-only 
device.

Bob
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