From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 5 11:37:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06230 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 11:37:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06119 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 11:36:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10960; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 12:13:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd010951; Thu Mar 5 12:12:59 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA00602; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 12:12:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803051912.MAA00602@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Disk write caches To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:12:55 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, remy@synx.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803050722.IAA08153@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Mar 5, 98 08:22:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I am *specifically* interested in what an FS mounted with soft updates > > would do (as I don't personally have the hardware wherewithall to be > > able to answer the question for myself; my DEC drives don't seem to > > allow me to turn things off). > > What do you want to turn of? And what drives? I might be able to find out > how to 'convince' them Julian's going to do it to some hardware here. What I wanted to turn off was the write cache onboard the disk drive itself. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message