From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 4 23:24:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA21364 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 23:24:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA21241 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 23:24:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA22978 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Thu, 5 Mar 1998 08:24:25 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id IAA08153; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 08:22:16 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199803050722.IAA08153@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Disk write caches In-Reply-To: <199803042312.QAA17919@usr01.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Mar 4, 98 11:12:53 pm" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 08:22:16 +0100 (MET) Cc: remy@synx.com, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Terry Lambert wrote... > I am *specifically* interested in what an FS mounted with soft updates > would do (as I don't personally have the hardware wherewithall to be > able to answer the question for myself; my DEC drives don't seem to > allow me to turn things off). What do you want to turn of? And what drives? I might be able to find out how to 'convince' them W/ _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' --------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net,Open]BSD Unix -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message