From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 29 8:29:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web110.yahoomail.com (web110.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63EBB37B424 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17553 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Aug 2000 15:29:20 -0000 Message-ID: <20000829152920.17552.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> Received: from [216.205.158.97] by web110.yahoomail.com; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:29:20 PDT Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:29:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Holtor Subject: Write Cache & Softupdates To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am thinking of enabling softupdates but have read in the questions/stable mail listing archives that enabling softupdates when the hard drive has write cache enabled could cause trouble that would not normally be experienced. Does anyone know if there is any truth to that? Is disabling write cache not a good idea? If anyone could offer up some suggestions, that would be beneficial. Holt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message