Optimizing performance with SLOG/L2ARC

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, PK1048 wrote:
>
> I have seen the RAM based battery-backed-up drives, and some are not 
> even ludicrous in terms of price, but I did not see any with FreeBSD 
> driver support. Since they are generally PCIe based (for speed), 
> drives are needed.

RAID-oriented HBAs often offer battery-backed SRAM support.  One would 
think that using one of these with a single attached SSD should serve 
as a lower-latency zil than the SSD itself.  Driver support is then 
readily available.

Bob
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