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SubjectRe: Should raw I/O be added to the kernel?
   From: uixjjji1@umail.furryterror.org (Zygo Blaxell)
Date: 21 Jan 1999 23:38:15 -0500

Then the power fails before the SCSI drive
can flush its embedded cache.

Oops.

Oops, but only for the drive manufacturer. Last I checked nearly all
scsi disk manufacturers which used a cache design where this would
matter, have a mechanism which keeps enough charge around such that at
the event of a power loss to the disk the cache will be flushed in
time within some large margin of error.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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