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Date:      Wed, 13 May 1998 17:54:00 -0400
From:      "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching 
Message-ID:  <199810142313.SAA17170@quark.ChrisBowman.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981014105142.2872Q-100000@current1.whistle.c om>
References:  <199810140518.XAA15040@pluto.plutotech.com>

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At 11:08 AM 10/14/98 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>7/ to allow for this to be achieved easily, there should be an easy way to
>ensure that the write cache is turned off. Possibly as simple as
>a good example in  camctl.8 .
>
>
>julian

Could we make this a mount time option, say if -wc to turn write caching on,
-nowc to turn it off, and if neither flag is present use whatever the drive is
already set for. 
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Christopher R. Bowman
crb@ChrisBowman.com
http://www.ChrisBowman.com/

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