Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 23:31:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching Message-ID: <199810172131.XAA08150@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19981017191758.A13174@gvr.org> from Guido van Rooij at "Oct 17, 98 07:17:58 pm"
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As Guido van Rooij wrote... > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 07:58:17PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > The errors seen are a result of uncommitted data in the drive cache, > > not power spikes and gremlins. The interaction is well understood, > > and on firm footing unrelated to Stephan King novels. > > I always thought a drive will always be able to flush its write cache > to disk, even when power fails. You'd say so, but it is not always the case. I have discussed with the disk experts in our company and they have told me enough to always keep WB caching disabled. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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