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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: disable write caching with softupdates?
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:30:06 -0700 (PDT)
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Isn't it safer (in the face of a power failure) to disable write
caching on a hard disk when softupdates is in use?

The ata driver currenly always enables write caching. Perhaps
there should be a sysctl knob to turn it on/off?

-Archie

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