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At 07:30 PM 7/8/2001, Craig Harding wrote:

>In other words, Windows doesn't actually do anything to ensure that a HD
>write cache is written to disk before restarting, 

To be fair, no one can except by turning off lazy writes. This is what
Softupdates does in FreeBSD, and it does incur a performance hit
(though it's worth it, IMHO).

--Brett


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