Re: ZFS melting under postgres...

On Dec 14, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

David Duchscher <daved@xxxxxxxx> writes:
So does anybody know of a battery backed NVRAM card that can be used
with FreeBSD that the ZIL could be offloaded to?

Any CF card or similar will do. You don't need battery backup for
flash memory.

I did think of that but is a CF card faster than a good SAS or SATA drive? Fastest ones I found have a top rating of 45MB/s. The one battery backed NVARM card that showed up in a google search had a peak rate of 533MB/s. The question seems moot though since FreeBSD doesn't currently support them.

Thanks for your time,
--
DaveD

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