Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs_nocacheflush, nvram, and root pools

2008-12-03 Thread Neil Perrin
On 12/02/08 03:47, River Tarnell wrote: hi, i have a system connected to an external DAS (SCSI) array, using ZFS. the array has an nvram write cache, but it honours SCSI cache flush commands by flushing the nvram to disk. the array has no way to disable this behaviour. a well-known

[zfs-discuss] zfs_nocacheflush, nvram, and root pools

2008-12-02 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, i have a system connected to an external DAS (SCSI) array, using ZFS. the array has an nvram write cache, but it honours SCSI cache flush commands by flushing the nvram to disk. the array has no way to disable this behaviour. a well-known

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs_nocacheflush

2008-07-31 Thread Roch - PAE
Peter Tribble writes: A question regarding zfs_nocacheflush: The Evil Tuning Guide says to only enable this if every device is protected by NVRAM. However, is it safe to enable zfs_nocacheflush when I also have local drives (the internal system drives) using ZFS, in particular if

[zfs-discuss] zfs_nocacheflush

2008-07-30 Thread Peter Tribble
A question regarding zfs_nocacheflush: The Evil Tuning Guide says to only enable this if every device is protected by NVRAM. However, is it safe to enable zfs_nocacheflush when I also have local drives (the internal system drives) using ZFS, in particular if the write cache is disabled on those

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs_nocacheflush

2008-07-30 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Peter, Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 9:19:30 AM, you wrote: PT A question regarding zfs_nocacheflush: PT The Evil Tuning Guide says to only enable this if every device is PT protected by NVRAM. PT However, is it safe to enable zfs_nocacheflush when I also have PT local drives (the internal