[OpenIndiana-discuss] slicing a disk for ZIL

[Jonathan Adams]

On 29 November 2012 15:27, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
> On 2012-11-29 15:59, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamobil at gmx.net]

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>> The better thing is to swallow and accept 60G wasted on your slog device.
>> It's not there for storage capacity - you bought it for speed.  And there
>> isn't excess speed going to waste.
>
> Well, there is some truth to this :) But what is the alternative?
> For example, on smaller systems you only have one PCI(*) bus and
> that would be a bottleneck, even if you add several SSDs onto the
> box, so you lose little by using few SSDs for many tasks right away.
>

I would suggest that on smaller systems you wouldn't bother messing
with the ZIL :)

Jon