On Mar 3, 2009, at 20:51, Richard Elling wrote:

This seems unusual, unless the EMC is mismatched wrt how they may have
implemented cache flush. The issues around this are described in the Evil
Tuning Guide
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#Cache_Flushes

Under the 5/08 and snv_72 note, the following text appears:

The sd and ssd drivers should properly handle the SYNC_NV bit, so no changes should be needed.

I'm assuming this relates to:

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6462690

So the caching-flushing scenario shouldn't be a problem with newer Solaris releases on higher-end arrays (assuming they support SBC-2's SYNV_NV).

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