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Date:      Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:24:58 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, le@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vinum, 5.x performance, ... (was: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged into the ports tree)
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On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:18:00 +0100
Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote:

> > - and performaces is a nightmare on atapi harddisks
> 
> AFAIR 4.x enables the write cache (bad if there's a power failure in
> the soft-updates case, since without native command queueing the
> drivers may reorder writes witout the possibility to notify
> soft-updates about it),

So on NCQ disks write_caching should be safe from consistency
point-of-view ?

-- 
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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