From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 23:59:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544521065674 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:59:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C968FC18 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:59:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.20]) by QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Z97e1a0020SCNGk56ByoS3; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:58:48 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ZBzG1a00S2P6wsM3VBzHlp; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:59:18 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=QGNukSVxuW7VHL-qA5oA:9 a=xmFoNAi4HBVtBpNajZuVPfzwovgA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9E7CBC9419; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:59:16 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Rich Winkel Message-ID: <20081030235916.GC16747@icarus.home.lan> References: <9f3798c00810291118i1c80cb8cw8d4995eabe6a4f8f@mail.gmail.com> <4908BE2C.7010505@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20081030231207.GA56260@pencil.math.missouri.edu> <20081030233849.GA16747@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081030233849.GA16747@icarus.home.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem, RAID Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:59:19 -0000 On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > ... > In this scenario, write caching on the disks is usually done by the > controller itself (through a BIOS option), and not by FreeBSD. This should have read: "... usually enabled/disabled by the controller itself". :-) Sorry if that confused anyone. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |