[OpenIndiana-discuss] comstar iscsi target writeback cache flushed interval

[Richard Elling]

On Mar 6, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Can someone tell me how often data is flushed from a comstar iscsi
> target when the writeback cache is enabled?

Periodic flushing is done by the backing store. For ZFS, that defaults to 5 or
30 seconds for most implementations (txg commit interval).

Flushes are also respected when the initiator issues the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE
command.
 -- richard

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