Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >Well, break it down a little bit. If an ATA drive properly implements > >the cache flush command, then none of the ongoing discussion is > > Are you sure this is the case? Are there sequence points in softupdates > where it issues a flush request and by this guarantees fs integrity?
No, you're right. I meant write completions, not cache flushes. I don't know of any drives that do one properly and not the other, but they're certainly not the same thing. > I've read thru McKusick's paper in search for an answer but haven't > found any. All I've read so far on mailing lists and from googling > was that softupdates doesn't work if the wb-cache is enabled. On a lot of "ATA" drives that don't implement the spec properly. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"