Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability | | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | | Date | Sun, 15 May 2005 17:00:49 +0200 |
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> > They turned it off by default, which according to disk vendors > > lowers the MTBF of your disk to a fraction of the original value. > > > > I bet the total amount of valuable data lost for FreeBSD users because > > of broken disks is much much bigger than what they gained from not losing > > in the rather hard to hit power off cases. > > Aren't I/O barriers a way to safely use write cache?
yes they are. However of course they also decrease the mtbf somewhat, although less so than entirely disabling the cache....
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