From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Oct 17 19:03:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18885 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:03:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA18866; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:03:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA08821; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdwZ8817; Sun Oct 18 01:59:48 1998 Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:59:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Guido van Rooij cc: Terry Lambert , David Kelly , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching In-Reply-To: <19981017191758.A13174@gvr.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Guido van Rooij wrote: > I always thought a drive will always be able to flush its write cache > to disk, even when power fails. no, That's a myth. > > -Guido > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message