From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 20 03:39:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 107394AC; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 03:39:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 613A1184E; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 03:39:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s1K3cnuA017687 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:08:55 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Separate ZIL on Root Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.1 \(1827\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_6759B1F0-5D40-402E-973C-65237D0C6E81"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <1392865768.15134.85531273.410FC394@webmail.messagingengine.com> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:08:49 +1030 Message-Id: <42BA9412-33DD-42DB-9D59-E02843ED4418@gsoft.com.au> References: <743B7655-C13E-425B-96E1-A63611FBA043@gsoft.com.au> <1392865768.15134.85531273.410FC394@webmail.messagingengine.com> To: Mark Felder X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1827) X-Spam-Score: -3.55 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 03:39:09 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_6759B1F0-5D40-402E-973C-65237D0C6E81 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 20 Feb 2014, at 13:39, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014, at 1:19, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>=20 >> So, does anyone know if there is a real problem or a hold over from >> Solaris? >>=20 >=20 > It works just fine but it might not be "recommended". I run it on a = few > boxes, Glen on many. Just remove the bootfs flag from the root zpool, > add the zil, and then add the boot flag back. I think this was more > dangerous when the loss of a zil was a serious matter, but isn't such = a > concern anymore. Someone else will probably fill in details or correct > me on these points :-) Can you just do a few writes and then mash the power switch for test = purposes? That'd be grand ;) It looks like it is doable and if it does stuff up I will have some = company :) Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --Apple-Mail=_6759B1F0-5D40-402E-973C-65237D0C6E81 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iD8DBQFTBXjJ5ZPcIHs/zowRAsmJAKCP1+DWwI8KkNt9ovKLDE0WVxoRmACfZoYI MoXOBnD2OORiVgwp66ic4gg= =azpy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_6759B1F0-5D40-402E-973C-65237D0C6E81--