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On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:57:45 -0500, <freebsd@top-consulting.net> wrote:

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> I know it's usually a big no-no but since I have the battery backed-up  
> write cache from the raid card, can't I just disable the ZIL entirely ?

No. ZFS doesn't work the way traditional filesystems do.