From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 24 22:31:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C563437B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bilbo.in.mat.cc (bilbo.in.mat.cc [212.43.217.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1642143E42 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:31:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mat@mat.cc) Received: from sauron (sauron.in.mat.cc [212.43.217.122]) by bilbo.in.mat.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E60671183 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:31:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:28:46 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold To: current@freebsd.org Subject: is src/UPDATING up to date Message-ID: <7891656.1035530926@sauron> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0b5 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I was twiddling with my yesterday's current, I was trying to make release to see how things were going, and I saw at the top of UPDATING that : In addition, IDE write caching is currently disabled by default due to on-going concerns about disk write order and file system integrity. Re-enabling write caching can substantially improve performance. I looked at ata(4), told me about hw.ata.wc, which was supposed to be enabled by default, and it was, so, my question is, is the comment above still true, and how do I enable write cache if it is, if it's not true any more, maybe it should be removed. -- Mathieu Arnold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message