From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 7:49:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web113.yahoomail.com (web113.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3733F37B443 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25295 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Aug 2000 14:49:54 -0000 Message-ID: <20000830144954.25294.qmail@web113.yahoomail.com> Received: from [216.205.158.97] by web113.yahoomail.com; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:49:54 PDT Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:49:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Holtor Subject: Re: SCSI Write Cache & SoftUpdates To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 August 2000 at 19:37:03 -0700, Holtor > wrote: > > I am thinking of enabling softupdates but have > read in the > > questions/stable mail listing archives that > enabling softupdates > > when the scsi hard drive has write cache enabled > could cause trouble > > that would not normally be experienced. > > > > Does anyone know if there is any truth to that? Is > disabling write > > cache not a good idea? If anyone could offer up > some suggestions, > > that would be beneficial. > > In general, you can't rely on disks to complete > cached writes if the > power fails. This doesn't have anything to do with > soft updates. > Soft updates will probably protect you better in > this situation, but > if you value your data you should turn off write > caching. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the > original recipients. > For more information, see > http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers Right now my drive has write cache enabled and softupdates disabled. So when enabling softupdates I should disable the write cache. This worried me: "if you value your data you should turn of write caching" - Does that mean it should be off if softupdates are enabled or not? Holt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message