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This might be a stupid question, but here goes... Would adding, say, 4 4 or 8gb usb keys as a zil make enough of a difference for writes on an iscsi shared vol? I am finding reads are not too bad (40is mb/s over gige on 2 500gb drives stripped) but writes top out at about 10 and drop a lot lower... If I where to add a couple usb keys for zil, would it make a difference? Thanks. Sent from a

...send, directly to the machine... Or i could upload the compressed, and possibly encrypted dump to the server... Which, for resume-ability and speed, would be suggested? And if i where to go with an upload option, any suggestions on what i should use? Thanks. -- Tiernan O''Toole blog.lotas-smartman.net www.geekphotographer.com www.tiernanotoole.ie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20121005/4a8c8221/attachment.html>

...share... So, 2 questions: 1: If you where given the same hardware, what would you do? (RAID card is an extra EUR30 or so a month, which i don''t really want to spend, but could, if needs be...) 2: should i mirror the boot drive for the VM? Thanks. -- Tiernan O''Toole blog.lotas-smartman.net www.geekphotographer.com www.tiernanotoole.ie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20121107/e6f53e22/attachment.html>