On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:38:16AM -0600, Neil Perrin wrote: > > > >GX620 on my desk at work and I run snv_40 on the Latitude D610 that I > >carry with me. In both cases the machines only have one disk, so I need > >to split it up for UFS for the OS and ZFS for my data. How do I turn on > >write cache for partial disks? > > > >-brian > > You can't enable write caching for just part of the disk. > We don't enable it for slices because UFS (and other > file systems) doesn't do write cache flushing and so > could get corruption on power failure. I suppose if you know > the disk only contains zfs slices then write caching could be > manually enabled using "format -e" -> cache -> write_cache -> enable
Eh, I guess I'll skip it then. ;) -brian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
