Re: [zfs-discuss] j4500 cache flush

2010-03-05 Thread Marion Hakanson
bene...@yahoo.com said: > Marion - Do you happen to know which SAS hba it applys to? Here's the article: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-248487-1 The title is "Write-Caching on JBOD SATA Drive is Erroneously Enabled by Default When Connected to Non-RAID SAS HBAs". By

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4500 cache flush

2010-03-05 Thread Brad
Marion - Do you happen to know which SAS hba it applys to? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4500 cache flush

2010-03-05 Thread Marion Hakanson
erik.trim...@sun.com said: > All J4xxx systems are really nothing more than huge SAS expanders hooked to > a bunch of disks, so cache flush requests will either come from ZFS or any > attached controller. Note that I /think/ most non-RAID controllers don't > initiate their own cache flush reque

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4500 cache flush

2010-03-04 Thread Erik Trimble
Brad wrote: Since the j4500 doesn't have a internal SAS controller, would it be safe to say that ZFS cache flushes would be handled by the host's SAS hba? Well. It depends on what you mean as "cache flush". Cache flushes happen at a couple of points: (1) ZFS decides it's time to wri

[zfs-discuss] j4500 cache flush

2010-03-04 Thread Brad
Since the j4500 doesn't have a internal SAS controller, would it be safe to say that ZFS cache flushes would be handled by the host's SAS hba? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://ma