Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:53:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John David Duncan <jdd@greatschools.net>
To:        <carter@pair.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: soft updates, write cache
Message-ID:  <20011017104044.Y5727-100000@bronze.greatschools.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011017153516.62503.qmail@smx.pair.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 carter@pair.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a bit unclear on the interactions of soft-updates and drive write cache.
> I  hear one should disable the write cache on IDE/ATA drives when using
> soft-updates.

Why?

This is the second reference I've seen to this on this list, but there is
no mention of it at www.mckusick.com or in the softupdates code... and
there's not any immediately intuitive problem, either; scsi adapters and
drives have long performed many levels of caching.

- JD



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011017104044.Y5727-100000>