From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 5 17:12:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from beastie.saturn-tech.com (beastie.saturn-tech.com [207.229.19.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDBD737B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 17:12:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by beastie.saturn-tech.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f460XdG96096; Sat, 5 May 2001 18:33:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) X-Authentication-Warning: beastie.saturn-tech.com: drussell owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 18:33:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell To: Kevin Oberman Cc: stable Subject: Re: soft update should be default In-Reply-To: <200105052242.f45MgBc24741@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 5 May 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: > An obvious exception is the laptop. I always turn on write cache on my > laptop as I know that it has a LONG battery backup. For a worst-case > type of operation (dd), I get 4x faster writes with write-cache > enabled on my laptop. Unless you are running on battery power and accidentally remove the battery, or forget about the machine while running without APM enabled or something. :) WCE very dangerous. WCE very dangerous. WCE very dangerous. Perhaps people should have to type that a few times before enabling. :) Maybe NO FUTURE... :) Later...... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message