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Date:      Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:14:08 +0000
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Write cache, is write cache, is write cache?
Message-ID:  <1032CC037935BA2DC2E60A4F@Octa64>
In-Reply-To: <20110122172714.00002274@unknown>
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--On 22 January 2011 17:27 +0000 Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote:

> sysutils/fio supports that: just add "fsync=x" to the
> configuration file and it'll send a request to the OS to flush the data
> to disk every x blocks.

That's great - thanks! - I'll check into that and test what exactly the 
"Enable drive write cache" option does (i.e. if it's all or nothing).

Thanks,

-Karl



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