Re:File Systems, Data Loss and ZFS
by ryao on Friday September 19, 2014 @10:18AM
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No. This mode was introduced specifically for virtualization so that the IOMMU will only restrict access to a guest machine's memory, such as when KVM is in use:
http://lwn.net/Articles/329174/
The only case in which this would help is when ZFS is on the host and a device passed through to a guest malfunctions.