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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> The reliability of soft updates is dependent on knowing that data
> written to disk is actually on the disk. If you turn on softupdates,
> turn off write cache on your disk drives.

I'm confused by your last statement.  Why do I turn off write cache on my
HDs? Are you talking about another sysctl variable or in teh actual bios?


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