Hello Robert,

Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 12:55:19 PM, you wrote:

RM> Hello zfs-discuss,

RM>   It looks like when zfs issues write cache flush commands se3510
RM>   actually honors it. I do not have right now spare se3510 to be 100%
RM>   sure but comparing nfs/zfs server with se3510 to another nfs/ufs
RM>   server with se3510 with "Periodic Cache Flush Time" set to disable
RM>   or so longer time I can see that cache utilization on nfs/ufs stays
RM>   about 48% while on nfs/zfs it's hardly reaches 20% and every few
RM>   seconds goes down to 0 (I guess every txg_time).

RM>   nfs/zfs also has worse performance than nfs/ufs.

RM>   Does anybody know how to tell se3510 not to honor write cache flush
RM>   commands?


Is there mdb hack to disable issuing write cache flushes by zfs?

It could be better than disabling it on the array itself as less scsi
commands would be send.


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