On 20 June, 2007 - Oliver Schinagl sent me these 1,9K bytes: > Also what about full disk vs full partition, e.g. make 1 partition to > span the entire disk vs using the entire disk. > Is there any significant performance penalty? (So not having a disk > split into 2 partitions, but 1 disk, 1 partition) I read that with a > full raw disk zfs will be beter to utilize the disks write cache, but I > don't see how.
Because when given a whole disk, ZFS can safely play with the write cache in disks without jeopardizing any UFS or so that might be on some other slice.. Helps when ZFS is batch-writing in a transaction group. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
