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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?