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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 20:11:44 -0300
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>
Cc:        Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, "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:  <3B0D9530.37134D9@newsguy.com>
References:  <20010523234910.B19185@widomaker.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105241224331.10469-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> <20010524141431.A8556@widomaker.com>

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Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > > 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
> 
> In a subthread, yeah. I think though, the overall issue is the caching
> ext2 does that ufs does not. I'm not even sure that soft updates is
> quite the same thing. I think the soft-updates paper mentions that it
> shouldn't increase risk, while a lot of people feel like ext2 is very
> risky.

Actually, no. Someone *specifically* mentioned that FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE
disables hardware caching on IDE, and Linux does not.

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