Todd E. Moore wrote:
> I'm working with a group that wants to commit all the way to disk 
> every single write - flushing or bypassing all the caches each time.  
> The fsync() call will flush the ZIL.  As for the disk's cache, if 
> given the entire disk, ZFS enables its cache by default.  Rather than 
> ZFS having to issue the flush command to the disk we want to disable 
> this cache and avoid the step altogether

Actually, it will flush to the ZIL.

If you don't want the disk's cache enabled by default, then
use a slice.  None of this is difficult.
 -- richard

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