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Arne Wörner wrote:

> (that disables the write cache in graid5, which slows down write requests)

Is the write cache in graid5 aware of what happens on the VFS / UFS
layers (something like gjournal does)? Otherwise, how can you guarantee
consistency with write caching at the GEOM layer when there's a power
outage or some other system interruption?