On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:40:40PM -0700, Anton B. Rang wrote: > Yes, ZFS uses this command very frequently. However, it only does this > if the whole disk is under the control of ZFS, I believe; so a > workaround could be to use slices rather than whole disks when > creating a ZFS pool on a buggy device.
Actually, we issue the command no matter if we are using a whole disk or just a slice. Short of an mdb script, there is not a way to disable it. We are trying to figure out ways to allow users to specify workarounds for broken hardware without getting the ZFS code all messy as a result. --Bill _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
