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Date:      Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:30:14 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        james@mansionfamily.plus.com
Cc:        Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?
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On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:51 AM, james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote:

> On 28/01/2013 16:10, Paul Kraus wrote:
>
>>         I have been using ZFS with GPT partitions with no issues. I have
>> NOT compared performance between whole disk and partitioned, which is where
>> the difference in Solaris arises (ZFS makes better use of the physical
>> drive's write cache).
>>
>
> Well, it is the write cache manipulation and flushing that I'd like to
> have turned on.  Anyone know what the score is with FreeBSD?


It is on.  Whether it's a raw drive or partition, the device is under
control of GEOM.  ZFS talks fine with either.  Just make sure partitions
are 4k aligned if necessary.

-- 
Adam Vande More



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