Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:59:37 +0200 | Subject | Re: safe file systems | From | Iñaky Pérez González <> |
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Chris> I think even my cheapish SCSI disks (which have a 1 (maybe 2?) Chris> MB cache) will do this. I assume here a system reset will not Chris> affect them, but power-failure did last time I checked. (But Chris> you can twiddle with the tables on them and modify the way it Chris> writes data back, etc).
Once I read (dunno where) some drives used to keep an small battery enough to flush all the writes from the cache to the disk in case of power down. Even I read on that same messages about others using the disk's inertia to generate power to do the flushing ... though this looks quite strange to me ...
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