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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:17:58 +0200
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching
Message-ID:  <19981017191758.A13174@gvr.org>
In-Reply-To: <199810161958.MAA24426@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 07:58:17PM %2B0000
References:  <199810161109.GAA16802@nospam.hiwaay.net> <199810161958.MAA24426@usr04.primenet.com>

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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. 

-Guido

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