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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:32:07 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Mixtim <mixtim@home.com>
Cc:        Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"......
Message-ID:  <20010724183207.D31997@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010724121425.A4439@home.com>; from mixtim@home.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:14:25PM -0400
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20010724103842.064dde20@marble.sentex.ca> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107240809090.92392-100000@snafu.adept.org> <20010724121425.A4439@home.com>

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On Tue 2001-07-24 (12:14), Mixtim wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:12:58AM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> > Hmm.  I hope the response to recent performance tests was /not/ to make a
> > potentially unsafe option 'default'.
> 
> Its only unsafe if you lose power. I think that anyone running a
> "server" without a UPS deserves to lose data.

UPS's die.  More often than using standard power in some areas.

And you're also discounting all sorts of hardware power issues that may
occur.

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org

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