Hello Peter, Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 11:18:32 PM, you wrote:
PS> Hello, PS> my understanding is that ZFS is specifically designed to work with write PS> caching, by instructing drives to flush their caches when a write barrier is PS> needed. And in fact, even turns write caching on explicitly on managed PS> devices. PS> My question is of a practical nature: will this *actually* be safe on the PS> average consumer grade SATA drive? I have seen offhand references to PATA PS> drives generally not being trustworthy when it comes to this (SCSI therefore PS> being recommended), but I have not been able to find information on the PS> status of typical SATA drives. PS> While I do intend to perform actual powerloss tests, it would be interesting PS> to hear from anybody whether it is generally expected to be safe. Well is disks honors cache flush commands then it should be reliable wether it's SATA or SCSI disk. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
