Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS advice for laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 01/04/11 18:40, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Zfs will disable write caching if it sees that a partition is being used This is backwards. ZFS will enable write caching on a disk if a single pool believes it owns the whole disk. Otherwise, it will do nothing to caching. You can enable it yourse

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS advice for laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Jana Mann wrote: What I would like to know is what risks do I carry by using partitions, I attempted to search for the rationale behind this advice but I can't seem to find it... As far as I am aware, there is no additional risk from using partitions except that there ar