From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 16:17:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com (teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com [139.134.5.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C838737B503 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ia912114 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:17:13 +1000 Received: from 203.54.249.228 ([203.54.249.228]) by mail3.bigpond.com (Claudes-Bigrnbetta-MailRouter V2.9c 5/3966009); 10 Oct 2000 08:17:07 Message-ID: <39E185A3.E7789FB7@iname.com> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 18:45:23 +1000 From: Peter Ortner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Holtor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Write Cache & Softupdates References: <20000829152920.17552.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You could theoretically loose data because data waiting to be written is kept in memory for a while, until it is written. If something Bad (such as a lockup or a power outage) happens in between the time the program "writes" the data, and it actually gets written, then it is lost forever. So, there is a theoritical possibility that you could loose data. Having said that, I use it on a server at home without problems. -- Regards, Peter. ---- http://www.users.bigpond.com/portner (Web Page) port@iname.com (Internet E-mail) ICQ 3114573 Holtor wrote: > I am thinking of enabling softupdates but have read in > the questions/stable mail listing archives that > enabling > softupdates when the hard drive has write cache > enabled > could cause trouble that would not normally be > experienced. > > Does anyone know if there is any truth to that? Is > disabling write cache not a good idea? If anyone could > offer up some suggestions, that would be beneficial. > > Holt > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message