what happens to pool if ZIL dies on ZFS v14

Martin Simmons martin at lispworks.com
Wed Sep 22 13:11:11 UTC 2010


>>>>> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:38:22 -0700, David Brodbeck said:
> 
> If you don't have a separate log device, synchronous writes are very
> slow with the ZIL enabled.  This isn't such a big deal unless you're
> using NFS, where essentially every write is synchronous.

Is that true for all versions of NFS?  In my experience (on 8.0-RELEASE),
NFSv2 is indeed synchronous, but NFSv3 does asynchronous flushing (for a
variety of different client OSes).

__Martin


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