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From: John Hanley <jh_@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Soft update instability with heavy IO and offboard IDE controller
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
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> turn off write caching at boot time in
> /boot/loader.conf by adding the line hw.ata.wc=0

Surely a default install should result in write caching disabled,
right?  Since any new filesystems will default to using soft update.


   Cheers,
   JH

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