Hello Matthew, Thursday, April 5, 2007, 1:08:25 AM, you wrote:
MA> Lori Alt wrote: >> >>> Can write-cache not be turned on manually as the user is sure that it is >>> only ZFS that is using the entire disk? >>> >>> >>> yes it can be turned on. But I don't know if ZFS would then know about it. >>> >>> I'd still feel more comfortably with it being turned off unless ZFS itself >>> does it. >>> >>> But maybe someone from the ZFS team can clarify this. >> I think that it's true that ZFS would not know about the >> write cache and thus you wouldn't get the benefit of it. MA> Actually, all that matters is that the write cache is on -- doesn't MA> matter whether ZFS turned it on or you did it manually. (However, make MA> sure that the write cache doesn't turn itself back off when you reboot / MA> lose power...) SCSI write cache flush commands will be issued regardless if zfs has a whole disk or only a slice then, right? -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
