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Date:      Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:05:29 +0100
From:      Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sidetracked: why gjournal over soft-updates (Was: Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail)
Message-ID:  <200804270505.FAA05477@sopwith.solgatos.com>

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> SU requires that data it once sends to the drive gets written
> immediately, not cached by the drive. Modern desktop drives
> don't do that

They do if you set them to write-through cache instead of
write-back cache.

Modern SATA drives also provide NCQ.  When is FreeBSD going
to support NCQ?



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