If you were really worried about it you could mount forcedirect IO or something, however, if you read the post, I mentioned to do it as a spare. A spare isn't active until there's a problem, so you'd only be running with the filedevice temporarily in theory anyway. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss