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Date:      Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:52:17 +1000
From:      Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?xaBpbXVuIE1pa2VjaW4=?= <numisemis@yahoo.com>,  freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ufs2 / softupdates / ZFS / disk write cache
Message-ID:  <4A3E9D81.1060406@modulus.org>
In-Reply-To: <570433.20373.qm@web37308.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <570433.20373.qm@web37308.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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Šimun Mikecin wrote:
> 21. lip. 2009., u 13:41, Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org> napisao:
>> Folks who need to maximize safety and can't afford the performance  
>> hit of no write cache need to do what they always have had to do in  
>> the past - buy a controller card with battery-backed cached.
> 
> Or:
> B) use SCSI instead of ATA disks
> C) use UFS+gjournal instead of UFS+SU
> D) use ZFS instead of UFS+SU


All of these solutions still involve disabling of write cache, with a 
performance hit of varying degrees. (I have tried all of those except 
gjournal!)




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