Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:59:48 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nuno Teixeira <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Subject: Re: hw.ata.wc && hw.ata.tags && softupdates short question Message-ID: <20010920215948.D78811@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010921122607.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20010921035414.B75668@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <XFMail.20010921122607.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:26:07PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 21-Sep-2001 j mckitrick wrote: > > | 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? > > Make backups often if you use WC :) Shouldn't need to do it more often than normal. > Personally I'd backup my drive, enable WC, do a whole bunch of writes and then > pull the power to see what the damage is like :) > do this same without WC and see the damage that is done. -- 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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