From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 9:30: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519C037B403 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:29:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6OGRSt01892; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:27:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) To: mike@adept.org Cc: mike@sentex.net, sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"...... In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010724103842.064dde20@marble.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010724092728E.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:27:28 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 38 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don't resurrect this thread - it already ran long enough the first time and had plenty of argument advanced on both sides. Go read the mailing list archives if you feel a deepseated personal need to go through the decision process in agonizing detail because that's what we did already. - Jordan From: Mike Hoskins Subject: Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"...... Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:12:58 -0700 (PDT) > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > to take. Yes, writes will be faster with write caching enabled. However, > > its that much more risky incase of power loss. > > > disabled by default. However, it was turned back on as a default a little > > later. > > Hmm. I hope the response to recent performance tests was /not/ to make a > potentially unsafe option 'default'. > > Sometimes 'faster' isn't better - anyone with a brain knows that, > right? Try replacing an overloaded VAX with a nice x86 box and watch it > run fast at first, then die smoking under load (humorous story from > college days ;)... You get my point. > > Later, > -Mike > > -- > Log analysis mailing list: > http://www.adept.org/mailinglists.html#logwatchers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message