From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 23 21: 1:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wilma.widomaker.com (wilma.widomaker.com [204.17.220.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D08437B423 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 21:01:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shannon@widomaker.com) Received: from [209.96.185.98] (helo=escape.shannon.net) by wilma.widomaker.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 152mJR-000DvH-00; Thu, 24 May 2001 00:01:26 -0400 Received: (from shannon@localhost) by escape.shannon.net (8.11.0/8.8.8) id f4O3nBH19686; Wed, 23 May 2001 23:49:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 23:49:10 -0400 From: Shannon To: Rik van Riel Cc: "Andresen,Jason R." , Kris Kennaway , Nadav Eiron , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <20010523234910.B19185@widomaker.com> References: <20010523125626.V87377-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:54:40PM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:54:40PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > 1. I don't think I've ever seen a Linux distro which has write > caching enabled by default. Hell, DMA33 isn't even enabled > by default ;) You are talking about controlling the IDE drive cache. The issue here is write cache in the filesystem code. -- shannon@widomaker.com _________________________________________________ ______________________/ armchairrocketscientistgraffitiexenstentialist "And in billows of might swell the Saxons before her,-- Unite, oh unite! Or the billows burst o'er her!" -- Downfall of the Gael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message