The following characteristics are some of the primary benefits of using Consistency Points instead of passing writes directly to disk: A performance gain is also attained on the disk subsystem since t...The following characteristics are some of the primary benefits of using Consistency Points instead of passing writes directly to disk: A performance gain is also attained on the disk subsystem since the write operations to disk can be grouped together into larger sequential writes instead of many smaller random writes. Since the writes to disk are processed in bulk, the WAFL subsystem can allocate larger swaths of data in contiguous space on the disk.
