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From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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:softupdates later on).  Write-back caching is disabled in the disks,
:even if they support it.  This is yet another step towards making the
:default installation of FreeBSD as reliable a system as it can be.

    Well, not any more... we caved in on that one because the performance
    loss was insane.  But for 4.2 it was turned off.

					    -Matt


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