Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:17:58 +0200 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching Message-ID: <19981017191758.A13174@gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <199810161958.MAA24426@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 07:58:17PM %2B0000 References: <199810161109.GAA16802@nospam.hiwaay.net> <199810161958.MAA24426@usr04.primenet.com>
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On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 07:58:17PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The errors seen are a result of uncommitted data in the drive cache, > not power spikes and gremlins. The interaction is well understood, > and on firm footing unrelated to Stephan King novels. I always thought a drive will always be able to flush its write cache to disk, even when power fails. -Guido To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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