Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:51:07 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Nuno Teixeira <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hw.ata.wc && hw.ata.tags && softupdates short question Message-ID: <20010920215107.B78811@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010921121832.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20010920211704.C7820@gateway.bogus> <XFMail.20010921121832.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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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. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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