Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 03:05:00 -0800 (PST) From: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, james@wgold.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [Fwd: Failed mail: unknown user] Message-ID: <199702201105.DAA01185@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970220064915.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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* From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) * > Really? I think drives have their own cache, and if they have write * > buffering turned on, they will happily return "write complete" when * > they are only holding data in the buffer. * * That's another matter. ``Shit happens.'' :) I'm not sure what you mean here by "another matter". Somebody asked if the data is on the platter as soon as the write returns, so I said that's not necessarily the case depending on the disk's electronics (options). * Some of them are said to * even write back their cache if power fails, using the spindle's * momentum to generate the required power. That's nice to hear. :) Satoshi
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