From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 21:52:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA19761 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 21:52:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA19681 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 21:51:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA24090; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 06:51:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id GAA27172; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 06:49:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 06:49:15 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: james@wgold.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [Fwd: Failed mail: unknown user] References: <199702200052.QAA00662@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702200052.QAA00662@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Feb 19, 1997 16:52:38 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Satoshi Asami wrote: > Really? I think drives have their own cache, and if they have write > buffering turned on, they will happily return "write complete" when > they are only holding data in the buffer. That's another matter. ``Shit happens.'' :) Some of them are said to even write back their cache if power fails, using the spindle's momentum to generate the required power. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)