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Date:      Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:32:12 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RE: hw.ata.wc && hw.ata.tags && softupdates short question
Message-ID:  <20010921183212.A81649@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200109211726.f8LHQ3h70907@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:26:03AM -0700
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:26:03AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
| 
| :So, to boil everything down, I have 1 question:
| :
| :On a workstation LAPTOP (IDE, low load, etc), does it make more sense to use
| :softupdates, write caching, or both?
| :
| :jm
| 
|     Write caching is turned on by default in 4.4, so all you need to mess 
|     with is softupdates.  In a laptop environment, softupdates will not


But you *could* choose one or the other, but not both, correct?




jm
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My other computer is your windows box.

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