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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:36:50 +0100
From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: ZFS whole_disk=0
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According to Paul Schenkeveld:
>Is there a big performace penalty (or other disadvantage) when
>whole_disk == 0?

None that I know of, Solaris disable the write cache if it is not using the whole disk but FreeBSD does not have this issue.

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