Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 06:49:15 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: james@wgold.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [Fwd: Failed mail: unknown user] Message-ID: <Mutt.19970220064915.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199702200052.QAA00662@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Feb 19, 1997 16:52:38 -0800 References: <Mutt.19970219223544.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199702200052.QAA00662@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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As Satoshi Asami wrote: > Really? I think drives have their own cache, and if they have write > buffering turned on, they will happily return "write complete" when > they are only holding data in the buffer. That's another matter. ``Shit happens.'' :) Some of them are said to even write back their cache if power fails, using the spindle's momentum to generate the required power. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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