Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:47:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, julian@whistle.com, guido@gvr.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching Message-ID: <199810191747.KAA28054@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199810182308.RAA21386@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Oct 18, 98 05:01:30 pm
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> >Perhaps they realized that the mpst likely event after a power > >fluctuation was a bus reset, and figured "why bother?". > > And why is this relevant? The only reasons allowed for cache contents > never making it to the disk are power loss and hardware failure. A > bus reset (assuming the hard reset alternative is in effect) only clears > any transactions that have not been reported as completed to the host. > > Perhaps you should add the SCSI II and SCSI II specs to your list of things > to read. Feel free to engage in Ad Hominim attacks, *after* you explain why Don Lewis is seeing the empirical behaviour he is seeing, in contradiction to your claims of what's possible and not. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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