From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 7 14:59:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD7037B41B for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:59:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0339.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.84] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16YxVK-0005Bz-00; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:58:59 -0800 Message-ID: <3C630651.91C0476C@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:57:21 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Cejka Rudolf , Garance A Drosihn , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Performance of -current vs -stable References: <20020207101501.A89056@fit.vutbr.cz> <20020207190807.A19376@freebie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. "Friends don't let friends cache writes" ??? [1/2] 8-)... some IDE drives lie, when you tell them to flush their caches. [1] 8-(. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message