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On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:34:22AM +0100, Fredrik Widlund wrote:
> Yes, it forces writeback even when the controller has no BBU. Choosing 
> WBack itself will default back to WThru. It's dangerous, but I guess it 
> should be much less dangerous than using for example softupdates.

I don't see how it could be *less* dangerous than using softupdates. Any
loss of power while writing and it seems to me that you are going to be
screwed w/o a BBU.

[snip]

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