Terry Lambert wrote:
> Mike Silbersack wrote:
> > 1. Have the ata driver leave the write cache setting
> > alone by default, providing a sysctl which can cause
> > disabled or enabled if requested. When the default is
> > allowed, put something in dmesg which says "Note: Write
> > caching may be enabled. See ata(4) for the reliability
> > implications of this."
>
> You need to look at the code; it would be relatively hard
> to make this runtime tunable instead of boot-time tunable.
False. It is actually very easy to change at runtime if it is done at a
convenient time. We have had patches kicking around for something like 6
months now that do this.
Cheers,
-Peter
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