Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:43:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disable write caching with softupdates? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009211342490.38107-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <200009200920.LAA66651@freebsd.dk>
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> > The ATA drives Whistle is using, which is what I'm assuming > > Archie is on about, do _not_ support this facility. As far > > as I can tell, there wre some SCSI drives manufactured by > > IBM at one time which could do this, and some lab drives at > > Quantum (also SCSI). > Hmm, well, lets disable this then, there is no need to complicate > things :) Please make this conditional, as people with non-crippled hardware might want to employ the write cache. A sysctl or build option would be best. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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