That does look like the issue being discussed. It's a little alarming that the bug was reported against snv54 and is still not fixed :(
Does anyone know how to push for resolution on this? USB is pretty common, like it or not for storage purposes - especially amongst the laptop-using dev crowd that OpenSolaris apparently targets. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:44 PM, bdebel...@intelesyscorp.com <bdebel...@intelesyscorp.com> wrote: > Is this the crux of the problem? > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6424510 > > 'For usb devices, the driver currently ignores DKIOCFLUSHWRITECACHE. > This can cause catastrophic data corruption in the event of power loss, > even for filesystems like ZFS that are designed to survive it. > Dropping a flush-cache command is just as bad as dropping a write. > It violates the interface that software relies on to use the device.' > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
