From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 22:16:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835E0106566B for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:16:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13FC58FC0C for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D3CFE8311; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:16:55 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from :to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=H7WzPtitn0Cu 9dj3dTOkxgDOY0c=; b=BiRaAyUVlTvPwWjKMwAwZxGynDq9ynhKFVTiE2U0M7Kf VVEgH/kx60qIr4MOQUd5cxnpUGPMUHalNyVXZZq+Br3OOkkAr+f+di7AoE2jXzGF kVitwUDLnRBC/FjBaHzavOFAV6/lY/UAACvLKmuRfLshirUo0F98kFifQFM5lOw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=date:from:to :cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=Vynw6L m021I1FKn0ctciViBoNuAyhHEp1A+z1l+trGbG4usuKUe6GA7aWXli7NFanoRmlS 5HyHq9QWu7bwkh4VQv1OTuW5ma7r35v5VL90khc+s8MetbfuhiLlLPmdfBtz8t2X b30Gnpm+aGwkfL2CgWkZB4SDBzh9u6GYKFm7A= Received: from unknown (client-86-23-95-6.brhm.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.23.95.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DD2FEE8310; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:16:54 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:16:51 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Karl Pielorz Message-ID: <20110123221651.000037f2@unknown> In-Reply-To: <1032CC037935BA2DC2E60A4F@Octa64> References: <1ABA88EDF84B6472579216FE@Octa64> <20110122111045.GA59117@icarus.home.lan> <20110122172714.00002274@unknown> <1032CC037935BA2DC2E60A4F@Octa64> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Write cache, is write cache, is write cache? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:16:56 -0000 On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:14:08 +0000 Karl Pielorz wrote: > That's great - thanks! - I'll check into that and test what exactly > the "Enable drive write cache" option does (i.e. if it's all or > nothing). You might also find http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html interesting. -- Bruce Cran