Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:05:03 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ? |
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:27:45PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We (as in Linux) should make sure that we explicitly tell the disk when > we need it to flush its disk buffers. We don't do that right, and > because of _our_ problems some people claim that writeback caching is > evil and bad. >
Actually, their claim is that most drives won't even *honor* the request to sync to oxide.
Once the number of drives that support this goes up, then write cache is safe to use...
Personally, I have a script that enables write cache, and sets the drive to its highest dma level on boot...
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