From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Sep 21 4:43:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 597CE37B423; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 04:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id NAA56995; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:43:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA38123; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:43:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:43:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Terry Lambert , Archie Cobbs , fs@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disable write caching with softupdates? In-Reply-To: <200009200920.LAA66651@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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