Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:14:08 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Write cache, is write cache, is write cache? Message-ID: <1032CC037935BA2DC2E60A4F@Octa64> In-Reply-To: <20110122172714.00002274@unknown> References: <1ABA88EDF84B6472579216FE@Octa64> <20110122111045.GA59117@icarus.home.lan> <D8077758CFED5EF1CB2AB613@Octa64> <20110122172714.00002274@unknown>
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--On 22 January 2011 17:27 +0000 Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: > sysutils/fio supports that: just add "fsync=x" to the > configuration file and it'll send a request to the OS to flush the data > to disk every x blocks. 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). Thanks, -Karl
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