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Subject: Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances
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On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 22:18 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > and anyone who enabled SATA WC or complained about I/O slowness
> > would be forced into Siberian salt mines for the remainder of their lives.
> 
> so reserve a place for me there.

Yeah, me too.  I prefer to go for all-out performance with separate risk
mitigation strategies.  I wouldn't set up a client datacenter that way,
but it's wholly appropriate for what I do with this machine.

-- Ian