Re: zfs and disk write cache

From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 19:04:34 +0200
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:34:20AM -0700, Joerg t wrote:
> Does zfs on FreeBSD also disables the disk write cache like on Solaris if we give only a slice of the disk ?

No. On Solaris write cache is disabled by default AFAIK, because of UFS,
so ZFS on Solaris doesn't turn on write cache when it is configured on a
slice, because another slice may have UFS. On FreeBSD write cache is
enabled by default, so ZFS bascially doesn't touch it.

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