Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:25:59 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Shannon <shannon@widomaker.com> Cc: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105241224331.10469-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <20010523234910.B19185@widomaker.com>
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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Shannon wrote: > 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. 1) IIRC they were talking about hw.ata.wc 2) soft-updates _is_ a form of write cache in the filesystem code, in fact, that's one of the points of soft-updates in the first place ;) regards, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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