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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:18:45 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Softupdates
Message-ID:  <002201c17724$84043200$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIOENHDPAA.patrick@mip.co.za> <01112609195201.00903@i8k.babbleon.org> <20011126172050.A63285@luke.immure.com>

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Bob writes:

> BTW, the performance on SCSI disks doesn't seem
> to be nearly as adversly affected by disabling
> write caching (perhaps due to their higher-level
> command interface, esp. command tag queuing).

I seem to recall that SCSI disk drives and controllers are more likely to have
on-board transparent write caching, which would speed them up considerably.  On
those rare occasions where this is not completely transparent, there can be
serious problems.




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