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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 1998 16:54:22 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs), Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching 
Message-ID:  <199810142301.RAA06139@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:40:09 -0000." <199810142240.PAA01660@usr04.primenet.com> 

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>I think the moral of this story is that you can't rely on UPS's,
>and instead should only rely on single-state-transition based
>finite state automatons if you need to be able to rely on anything.

The moral of this story is that everyone should decide what kinds of
performance/safety tradeoffs they are willing to make and design their
systems accordingly.

--
Justin



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