Re: Clarification of SSD journals for BTRFS rotational HDD

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Also sending to the devel list to see if they have some insight.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Robert LeBlanc <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I tried finding an answer to this on Google, but couldn't find it.
>
> Since BTRFS can parallel the journal with the write, does it make
> sense to have the journal on the SSD (because then we are forcing two
> writes instead of one)?
>
> Our plan is to have a caching tier of SSDs in front of our rotational
> HDDs and it sounds like the improvements in Hammer will really help
> here. If we can take the journals off the SSDs, that just opens up a
> bit more space for caching (albeit not much). It specifically makes
> the configuration of the host much simpler and a single SSD doesn't
> take out 5 HHDs.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert LeBlanc
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