Darren:

 > > With all of the talk about performance problems due to
 > > ZFS doing a sync to force the drives to commit to data
 > > being on disk, how much of a benefit is this - especially
 > > for NFS?

I would not call those things as problems, more like setting 
proper expectations.

My understanding is that enabling write cache helps by
providing I/O concurrency for drives that do not implement
other form of Command Queuing. In other cases, WCE should
not buy much if anything. I'd be interested in analysing any 
cases that shows otherwise...

-r

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