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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:02:43 -0600
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver
Message-ID:  <20061101210243.GG98766@rancor.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <4547DD7E.4030509@qbrick.com>
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On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:34:22AM +0100, Fredrik Widlund wrote:
> Yes, it forces writeback even when the controller has no BBU. Choosing 
> WBack itself will default back to WThru. It's dangerous, but I guess it 
> should be much less dangerous than using for example softupdates.

I don't see how it could be *less* dangerous than using softupdates. Any
loss of power while writing and it seems to me that you are going to be
screwed w/o a BBU.

[snip]

-- 
Bob Willcox                       Possessions increase to fill the space
bob@immure.com                    available for their storage.
Austin, TX                               -- Ryan



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