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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Shannon <shannon@widomaker.com>
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Subject: Re: technical comparison
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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
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