Separate ZIL on Root

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 20 Feb 2014, at 13:39, Mark Felder <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014, at 1:19, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> 
>> So, does anyone know if there is a real problem or a hold over from
>> Solaris?
>> 
> 
> 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.

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