On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 12:14:46PM +1000, Nathan Kroenert wrote: > format -e is your window to cache settings.
Ah ha! > As for the auto-enabling, I'm not sure, as IIRC, we do different things > based on disk technology. > > eg: IDE + SATA - Always enabled > SCSI - Disabled by default, unless you give ZFS the whole disk. > > I think. > > On a couple of my systems, this seems to ring true. Well, I just checked the snv81 box that has ZFS root via Tim's script, and I know I didn't enable the cache, so that definitely seems to be true for SATA as the read and write cache of both drives are enabled. Thanks for the pointer to format -e! -brian -- "Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
