On Tue, Oct 20 at 22:24, Frédéric VANNIERE wrote:

You can't use the Intel X25-E because it has a 32 or 64 MB volatile
cache that can't be disabled neither flushed by ZFS.

I don't believe the above statement is correct.

According to anandtech who asked Intel:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=10

the DRAM doesn't hold user data.  The article claims that data goes
through an internal 256KB buffer.

Is solaris incapable of issuing a SATA command FLUSH CACHE EXT?


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Eric D. Mudama
edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org

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