Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.10 improved reiserfs a lot, but could still be better | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:45:03 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > better. Decent write caching on IDE devices (like the 2meg buffer on the IBM) > > can completely hide this issue. > > Decent write caching on IDE devices can eat your whole file system.
YM bad write caching 8)
> Turn it off (I have no idea of internals, but I presume it'll still be a > write-through cache, so reading back will still be served from the > buffer). Do hdparm -W0 /dev/hd[a-h].
You can't turn it off and on many drives you can't flush the cache either the operation is not implemented. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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