From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Sep 30 19: 7:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2514F37B502 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA15959; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:04:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAoFayiF; Sat Sep 30 19:04:32 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA18108; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:07:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010010207.TAA18108@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: disable write caching with softupdates? To: karsten@rohrbach.de Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 02:07:22 +0000 (GMT) Cc: julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer), archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), sos@freebsd.dk (Soren Schmidt), mbendiks@eunet.no, terry@lambert.org, fs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20001001034719.C83678@rohrbach.de> from "Karsten W. Rohrbach" at Oct 01, 2000 03:47:19 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Karsten writes: > Julian Elischer(julian@elischer.org)@Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:35:32PM -0700: > [...] > > > > Archies comment about MOST drives not supporting safe writing of > > accepted work is an understatement. When I was testing and selecting > > drives for the interjet, I found NO drives that would guarantee that > > data accepted for writing would be written in the case of power > > failure. > were those only ata or scsi drives, too? ATA (IDE). The InterJet uses IDE drives only. It's not expected to have a high non-serialized load, even though it has AFS and SMB servers on board. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message