bah!
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 07:20:19PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2011/02/20 11:59, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl>
> > wrote:
> > > Ah, that's the bit I was missing. A userland tool to display and
> > > manipulate the cache settings would still be good though.
> > > Functionality should probably be added to bioctl(8). A bit
> > > unfortunate that both the -c and -C options are already taken.
>
> -w or -W wouldn't be too bad an alternative (_w_rite cache).
>
> > We also have a scsi(8) tool that seems more analogous to atactl (which
> > can manipulate cache behavior).
>
> scsi(8) can manipulate write cache on some drives too. But in this
> case we're talking about a setting for the volume rather than for
> drives, so bioctl(8) wouldn't be a bad choice. (I don't know about
> mpii, but for mpi the vendor management tool in some OS allows
> you to set this, and bioctl is the closest analogue to this).
