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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 22:34:26 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: technical comparison
Message-ID:  <200105242235.PAA13693@usr02.primenet.com>

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] > 1. I don't think I've ever seen a Linux distro which has write
] >    caching enabled by default. Hell, DMA33 isn't even enabled
] >    by default ;)
] 
] You are talking about controlling the IDE drive cache.
] 
] The issue here is write cache in the filesystem code.

No.  The issue here is the write cache on the drive.
FreeBSD with soft updates will operate within 4% of the
top memory bandwidth; see the Ganger/Patt paper on the
technology.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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