Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:08:56 +0100 From: Felix Winterhalter <felix@audiofair.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS and a spare SSD: ZIL or L2ARC? Message-ID: <4105ed7d-145f-f3bf-3de0-89525e8a75e0@audiofair.de> In-Reply-To: <c296b7b3-8418-3966-66ed-502d25a848dd@netfence.it> References: <c296b7b3-8418-3966-66ed-502d25a848dd@netfence.it>
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Hello Av, if you don't have a second spare SSD I can not recommend using it as ZIL. If your single ZIL disk dies you do lose data. Using it as L2ARC would be safe. Regards, Felix On 13/02/2019 18:02, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > > I have a FreeBSD server with a 4TB ZRAID1 and 16GiB RAM; it's also > hosting a Windows 7 with SQL Server through bhyve. > > Now I've just got hold of a spare SSD and, although the box > performance is adequate, I'd like to see if it can boost it. > Should I configure it as L2ARC? ZIL? Both? > > Which will benefit the bhyve VM more? > > bye & Thanks > av. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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