[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> The only obvious thing would be if the exported ZFS filesystems where
> initially mounted at a point in time when zil_disable was non-null.
No changes have been made to zil_disable. It's 0 now, and we've never
changed the setting. Export/import doesn't appear to change
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> The reality is that
> ZFS turns on the write cache when it owns the
> whole disk.
> _Independantly_ of that,
> ZFS flushes the write cache when ZFS needs to insure
> that data reaches stable storage.
>
> The point is that the flushes occur whether
Marion, this is a common misintrepetation :
"Anyway, I've also read that if ZFS notices it's using "slices" instead
of
whole disks, it will not enable/use the write cache. "
The reality is that
ZFS turns on the write cache when it owns the
whole disk.
_Independ
