From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 3 19:13:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04374 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:13:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04357 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:13:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA12048 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:13:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd012028; Tue Mar 3 20:13:37 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA12989 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:13:36 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803040313.UAA12989@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Disk write caches To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 03:13:36 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would be very interested to see what the benchmarks on a machine with soft updates would be with a disk with and without write cacheing. In many repsects, write caching could be obsolete soon... ;-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message