On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 1:43 AM, Nikola M <[email protected]> wrote:
> And also there is the question weather Hard disk cache is turned on if ZFS > uses partition and not the whole drive. Previoiusly, Hard disk caching used > to be turned OFF if ZFS is on partition and not on the whole drive, for UFS > compatibility. > Don't know how it is now nor how to explicitlycheck/turn ON Hard disk > caching if ZFS pool uses partition on drive. > > previously discussed several times, long ago (though somewhat difficult to search for): https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg49099.html ZFS never disables caches, and I believe they are almost always already enabled anyway, so you can forget this concern. From what I understand from reading the list, the only reason zfs has any code that touches disk cache settings at all is that long ago, Sun shipped some drives with the cache disabled by default in the firmware. I think if you aren't using old drives shipped by Sun, this "whole disk" distinction doesn't matter to you (as long as you don't also use UFS, anyway). Tim _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
