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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:46:30 -0500
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Ronald Klop
<ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>wrote:

> Isn't it write caching?
> My Solaris machine at work also flushes the data every 30 seconds.
>
> Ronald.
>
> I think you are right.  ZFS does work in bursts...it's very different than
what most people expect.  I know it was really  weird to me when i first saw
it.