Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:32:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), mbendiks@eunet.no, terry@lambert.org, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disable write caching with softupdates? Message-ID: <200009211832.MAA01789@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200009211820.UAA40830@freebsd.dk> References: <200009211807.LAA17698@bubba.whistle.com> <200009211820.UAA40830@freebsd.dk>
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> > > > Soren do you want me to try to come up with a patch? > > > > I don't claim to understand IDE technology.. can you > > > > just send the disable command at any time or is it > > > > more complicated than that? > > > > > > This will do it, or rather leave it as the disk default which > > > should be disabled... > > > > Thanks.. I was talking about a sysctl patch, where you could > > turn write caching on or off at any time while the system is > > running via sysctl. Is it even possible to do that? > > Why on earth would you want this as a sysctl knob ? So a user who wants to play it safe and/or play it non-safe doesn't have to recompile the kernel from scratch just to change the behavior. Sysctl's allow us to support more folks w/out recompiling their kernels. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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