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Subject: regarding tyhe recent disc drives conversation...
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From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:28:38 +0100
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is thhere any advantage to be gained by mounting a disc synchronous, but with
soft updates enabled ? will not the effect o softupdates be to cancel out
any benificial effects of having the data written to the disc synchronously
as the meta data that describes it will not be written out until some
later time - thus if a power outage occurs the data will still be lost ?

-pcf.

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