From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 20 19:51: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (leviathan.inethouston.net [66.64.12.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93CA37B41B for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 541CB10F4C1; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:51:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:51:07 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hw.ata.wc && hw.ata.tags && softupdates short question Message-ID: <20010920215107.B78811@leviathan.inethouston.net> Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Mail-Followup-To: Daniel O'Connor , Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20010920211704.C7820@gateway.bogus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:18:32PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 20-Sep-2001 Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > For what I heard, I concluded that we shouldn't use softupdates with write > > cache turned on. The first time that I tried this I loose a lot of work > > due to a power failure. > > You shouldn't use write caching, period. > > Well you can but if you lose power you WILL lose data. > Doesn't harware write cache usually write itself to disk before power outage or even after? -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message