Nigel Smith wrote: > David Magda wrote: >> This is also (theoretically) why a drive purchased from Sun is more >> that expensive then a drive purchased from your neighbourhood computer >> shop: Sun (and presumably other manufacturers) takes the time and >> effort to test things to make sure that when a drive says "I've synced >> the data", it actually has synced the data. This testing is what >> you're presumably paying for. > > So how do you test a hard drive to check it does actually sync the data? > How would you do it in theory? > And in practice? > > Now say we are talking about a virtual hard drive, > rather than a physical hard drive. > How would that affect the answer to the above questions?
http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html has a utility that can be used to test if your systems (including virtual ones) properly sync data to disk when asked to. -- James Andrewartha _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
