[sorry for the lack of quoting, OWA doesn't do it nicely.] Which OS & file system? If the storage target is an NFS mount, you'll still have the server cache. Also, IIRC solaris doesn't honor direct=1 anyway. If zfs is involved.... there's no escaping it's optimizations :). Please give us more info about the setup. z! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html