Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:10:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disable write caching with softupdates? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009200909020.30002-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <200009200030.RAA08442@bubba.whistle.com>
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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? Not necessarily safer, I'd think, if you refer to consistency. But certainly if you refer to the amount of data lost; but if that is a concern, you might want to decrease the syncer interval. > The ata driver currenly always enables write caching. Perhaps > there should be a sysctl knob to turn it on/off? *nod* This sounds like a good idea. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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