Marion Hakanson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Living on the edge... The T3 has a 2 year battery life (time is counted). >> When it decides the batteries are too old, it will shut down the nonvolatile >> write cache. You'll want to make sure you have fresh batteries soon. > > Hmm, doesn't the array put the cache into "write-through" mode when the > batteries go out? You can do so manually, as well. > > My understanding was that when this happens, you're not going to suffer > the corruption that would occur when the power goes out, because there > won't be any uncommitted writes living in the (no-longer NV) cache. > Even if we tell ZFS to not flush/sync the cache, there shouldn't be > anything in the cache that the array hasn't already flushed. > > Am I wrong? Is there some danger, other than slower writes, in running > without working batteries?
You are correct. This is what I meant by "shut down the nonvolatile cache" -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
