From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 5 10:28:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D2337B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 10:28:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list@rachinsky.de) Received: from [195.20.224.204] (helo=mrvdom00.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14w5qc-0006QR-00; Sat, 5 May 2001 19:28:02 +0200 Received: from p3e9b8e21.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.155.142.33] helo=pc3) by mrvdom00.schlund.de with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14w5qY-0005Hf-00; Sat, 5 May 2001 19:27:59 +0200 Message-ID: <003f01c0d588$a6d947e0$0364000a@rachinsky> From: "Nicolas" To: "Nick Sayer" , "Doug Russell" Cc: "stable" References: <3AF42ACD.5000500@quack.kfu.com> Subject: Re: soft update should be default Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 19:27:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Nick Sayer" To: "Doug Russell" Cc: "stable" Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 6:31 PM Subject: Re: soft update should be default >=20 > That may be the original intent, but cheap IDE drives let you turn on=20 > write caching, and they're for sure not battery-backed (nor do they=20 > attempt to store enough power at power-off to write back the cache = with=20 > the remaining rotational latency or any such trickery). They lie about = it. >=20 > Write caching is evil unless you specifically know that it's being=20 > battery backed. 99.44% of the time, that's not the case. How can I disable it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message