# [OmniOS-discuss] Pliant/Sandisk SSD ZIL

Richard Elling richard.elling at richardelling.com
Sun Feb 23 05:14:46 UTC 2014

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    On Feb 18, 2014, at 10:40 AM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

    > On 2014-02-18 08:05, Richard Elling wrote:
    >> Fortunately, most real workloads are not tar -x.
    >
    > Oh, alas, on build farms they are. And the hordes of files produced
    > as a result of "make" are not far behind. Oh, well, often they are
    > behind - and subsequent accesses fail for a few seconds, just until
    > something syncs down the pipe and back to the client. So the typical
    > mantra is "gmake -j -k all; gmake all" for producing as many objects
    > as we can first, and then cleaning up the mess sequentially :)

    For build farms, why do you care about NFS sync writes? This is the
    canonical case for sync=disabled, because there is no unique data.
     — richard

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