From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 9:32: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com (curie.sunesi.com [196.25.112.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E693337B403 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:31:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) Received: (qmail 9597 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jul 2001 16:33:38 -0000 Received: from choke.sunesi.net (HELO gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) (196.25.112.242) by infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com with SMTP; 24 Jul 2001 16:33:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 53807 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Jul 2001 16:32:07 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:32:07 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Mixtim Cc: Mike Hoskins , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"...... Message-ID: <20010724183207.D31997@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010724103842.064dde20@marble.sentex.ca> <20010724121425.A4439@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010724121425.A4439@home.com>; from mixtim@home.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:14:25PM -0400 Organization: iTouch Labs X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 2001-07-24 (12:14), Mixtim wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:12:58AM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote: > > Hmm. I hope the response to recent performance tests was /not/ to make a > > potentially unsafe option 'default'. > > Its only unsafe if you lose power. I think that anyone running a > "server" without a UPS deserves to lose data. UPS's die. More often than using standard power in some areas. And you're also discounting all sorts of hardware power issues that may occur. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message