Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Nov 2001 22:23:13 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Disk hardware caching, performance, and journalling |
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:39:44PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote:
why does everyone get freaked out about disk caches? afaikt, there's only an O(50ms) window at each catastrophic power failure: trivial for any reasonable rate of failures...
If your disks are busy all the time (eg. a large mail server) then you will trivially hit this and it will be a problem.
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