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Ensuring data reaches disk

Ensuring data reaches disk

Posted Sep 9, 2011 9:10 UTC (Fri) by trasz (guest, #45786)
In reply to: Ensuring data reaches disk by k8to
Parent article: Ensuring data reaches disk

It might be worth mentioning that ZFS has an interesting solution for that: ZIL. Basically, it's a small log intended just for operations that need to be synced to disk; since it's a log, the writes are fast, and it's possible to move it to a separate log device.


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Ensuring data reaches disk

Posted Sep 9, 2011 15:59 UTC (Fri) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Yep, on some systems it's as cheap as you could hope!

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