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...seeing with trying to do performance testing with an SSD offloaded ZIL. I''m attempting to improve my infrastructure''s burstable write capacity (ZFS based WebDav servers), and naturally I''m looking at implementing SSD based ZIL devices. I have a test machine with the crummiest hard drive I can find installed in it, Quantum Fireball ATA-100 4500RPM 128K cache, and an Intel X25-E 32gig SSD drive. I''m trying to do A-B comparisons and am coming up with some very odd results: The first test involves doing IOZone write testing on the fireball standalone, the SSD...