From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 20 19:54:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281A737B415 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15kGSF-000JGD-00; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 03:54:15 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f8L2sF975808; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 03:54:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 03:54:14 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hw.ata.wc && hw.ata.tags && softupdates short question Message-ID: <20010921035414.B75668@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010920211704.C7820@gateway.bogus> <20010920215107.B78811@leviathan.inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010920215107.B78811@leviathan.inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:51:07PM -0500 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 Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:51:07PM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: | 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? And wouldn't a laptop be safe with write caching? At least if I keep the battery in? jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message