Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Flash archives

2006-06-21 Thread Phil Brown
Lori Alt wrote: zfs-aware. So the answer to your question is that you can create a flash archive from this system with zfs filesystems, but until the install software is zfs-aware, you can't use the archive to create a system with zfs pools and datasets. yeah that sort of stuff is usually spe

Re: [Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: disk write cache, redux]

2006-06-16 Thread Phil Brown
Pawel Wojcik wrote: Only SATA drives that operate under SATA framework and SATA HBA drivers have this option available to them via format -e. That's because they are treated and controlled by the system as scsi drives. >From your e-mail it appears that you are talking about SATA drives connec

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: disk write cache, redux

2006-06-15 Thread Phil Brown
Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering wrote: I'm puzzled by 2 things. Naively I'd think a write_cache should not help throughput test since the cache should fill up after which you should still be throttled by the physical drain rate. You clearly show that it helps; Anyone knows why/how a