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Date:      Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:45:58 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        bollocks@bollocks.net.nz, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MS has quality programmers and OS design? Stop smoking crack!
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010708214340.046dd8e0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3B49094B.C8506331@outpost.co.nz>

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At 07:30 PM 7/8/2001, Craig Harding wrote:

>In other words, Windows doesn't actually do anything to ensure that a HD
>write cache is written to disk before restarting, 

To be fair, no one can except by turning off lazy writes. This is what
Softupdates does in FreeBSD, and it does incur a performance hit
(though it's worth it, IMHO).

--Brett


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