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From: Emil Mikulic <emikulic@gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:16:57PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Just some random data.  I know when I was reading about ZFS I did
> come across some vague notion that zfs wanted the entire drive to
> better deal with queueing, not sure if that was official Sun docs or
> some random blog though...

ZFS on Solaris only enables write caching when it's given an entire disk.
pjd@ has stated that this does not affect FreeBSD, only Solaris.