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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2001 23:49:10 -0400
From:      Shannon <shannon@widomaker.com>
To:        Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc:        "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: technical comparison
Message-ID:  <20010523234910.B19185@widomaker.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105232251350.311-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:54:40PM -0300
References:  <20010523125626.V87377-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105232251350.311-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>

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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:54:40PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:

> 1. I don't think I've ever seen a Linux distro which has write
>    caching enabled by default. Hell, DMA33 isn't even enabled
>    by default ;)

You are talking about controlling the IDE drive cache.

The issue here is write cache in the filesystem code.

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