From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Oct 14 14:54:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03107 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quark.ChrisBowman.com (crbowman.erols.com [209.122.47.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03089; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:54:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Received: from fermion (fermion [10.0.1.2]) by quark.ChrisBowman.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA17170; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 18:13:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from crb@ChrisBowman.com) Message-Id: <199810142313.SAA17170@quark.ChrisBowman.com> X-Sender: crb@quark X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 17:54:00 -0400 To: Julian Elischer From: "Christopher R. Bowman" Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , Terry Lambert , Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199810140518.XAA15040@pluto.plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:08 AM 10/14/98 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >7/ to allow for this to be achieved easily, there should be an easy way to >ensure that the write cache is turned off. Possibly as simple as >a good example in camctl.8 . > > >julian Could we make this a mount time option, say if -wc to turn write caching on, -nowc to turn it off, and if neither flag is present use whatever the drive is already set for. -------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com http://www.ChrisBowman.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message