Travis Mikalson wrote:

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> If you're using compact flash for something that's constantly updated
> like a ZIL, wouldn't your CF card die real quick?

Probably, for constant updates to the same areas. But as you say:

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> Since a ZIL is not really seek-intensive, why not just offload it to it=
s
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> own standard hard disk that has its write caching and all other similar=

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> data-corrupting technologies disabled?

Yes. I don't see a point writing a log that's mostly sequantially
accessed on a SSD, and which probably wears the same areas on the drive.
I'm more interested in loads like databases.