From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 19:44: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newman2.bestweb.net (newman2.bestweb.net [209.94.102.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3506637B6B0 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:19:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from okeeffe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by newman2.bestweb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54DAA23361; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:18:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by okeeffe.bestweb.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id B2CAB9F427; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:12:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Steven Ames" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_Fax=E9r?= , Cc: Subject: Re: Performance of -current vs -stable Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:57:24 -0500 Message-Id: <20020212021254.B2CAB9F427@okeeffe.bestweb.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:08:07 +0100 > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > There is another common source of confusion: If anybody has IDE > > > disks, write-caching is enabled by default in -stable, but disabled > > > in -current. > > > > I don't think that is true anymore. -stable has WC enabled as well. > > -STABLE has it enabled indeed, but -CURRENT does not (afaik). > Read what he said. :-) I believe that hw.ata.wc is set to '0' by default. Easily correctible either by adding 'hw.ata.wc="1"' into your /boot/loader.conf or tweaking the source in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-disk.c (the former being the preferred method of course). -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message