Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: sync & asyck i/o | Date | Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:54:41 +0000 |
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sct@redhat.com said: > Linux will obey that if it possibly can: only in cases where the > hardware is actively lying about when the data has hit disk will the > guarantee break down.
Do we attempt to ask SCSI disks nicely to flush their write caches in this situation? cf. http://www.danbbs.dk/~dino/SCSI/SCSI2-09.html#9.2.18
Or do we instruct all SCSI disks not to do write caching in the first place?
-- dwmw2
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