From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Oct 17 10:18:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03922 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 10:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03906; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 10:18:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.gvr.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id TAA13178; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:17:58 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19981017191758.A13174@gvr.org> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:17:58 +0200 From: Guido van Rooij To: Terry Lambert , David Kelly Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching References: <199810161109.GAA16802@nospam.hiwaay.net> <199810161958.MAA24426@usr04.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199810161958.MAA24426@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 07:58:17PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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