When using ATA drives, I have to make a choice between write caching or soft
updates, since write caching with soft updates creates an unsafe situation.
I assume by 'write caching' you mean async.
No. You have that wrong.
async is always unsafe.
Everything else you say says that you
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Theo de Raadt
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 2:51 PM
To: Michael Favinsky
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Subject: Re: ATA Soft Updates or Write Caching
When using ATA drives, I have to make a choice
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:51:21PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
When using ATA drives, I have to make a choice between write caching or soft
updates, since write caching with soft updates creates an unsafe situation.
I assume by 'write caching' you mean async.
No. I think he meant caching
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:39:42PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
I assume by 'write caching' you mean async.
No. I think he meant caching by the disk device (see the note about
atactl writecachedisable).
I forgot:
And thus may be as (or even more) worse as async.
But then I'm a
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:39:42PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
I assume by 'write caching' you mean async.
No. I think he meant caching by the disk device (see the note about
atactl writecachedisable).
I forgot:
And thus may be as (or even more) worse as async.
But then
Michael Favinsky wrote:
I understand async is always unsafe. I don't mean async. I don't use async.
I mean the hardware write cache built into the ATA drives. I read somewhere
Funny...I've read lots of things that proved to be wrong.
Wrote a few things, too. ;)
that, unlike SCSI drives, the
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