Re: ZFS & disk cache

On 2009-06-01, Scara Maccai  wrote:
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> "The Solaris ZFS file system is safe with disk write-cache enabled because it issues its own disk cache flush commands"

> Could someone explain?

this means ZFS cofigured as described is suitable for the postgres
data (and *log) directories

> would that mean that I checking the disk cache with "format -e" on Solaris is not needed if I use ZFS????

you'd have to ask SUN about how well ZFS wouls handle that.