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Subject[2.1.12X] How to disable write-cache?
Hello,

It has become a little too dangerous for me to test 2.1 kernels; I
have had several sudden, silent hangs. The latest hang caused Big
Damage(tm) to one of my filesystems. Is there a way to lesson the risk by
disabling write-cacheing? I could write a script that does "sync" forever
with a sleep in-between. But if I could disable write-cacheing I would
think my odds of a safe recovery are highest.
FWIW, my system is Alpha (Avanti) booting Avanti kernel 2.1.124.
No logs. The last crash happened after about 20 good days of uptime. I'm
trying hard to build 2.1.128 now.

thanks,
-bp
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B. James Phillippe . bryan@terran.org
UNIX Software Engineer . http://www.terran.org/~bryan
Member since 1.1.59 . finger:bryan@earth.terran.org
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