Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:39:22 -0400 | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] 2.4.10 improved reiserfs a lot, but could still be better | From | (bill davidsen) |
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In article <200109251404.f8PE4Oh06427@deathstar.prodigy.com> I wrote:
>Write cache makes a big difference in normal use, where seeks and such >can be optimized, but for a single process writing a single file (ie. >dd) I don't see where it would or could help much.
Sorry, ignore this, I got a phone call while replying to this and glanced at the screen and transposed drive write cache with o/s write cache. Ignore, I had a failure to restore context, and someone else has made my intended point about ext2 being able to write stale blocks under some failure modes.
-bill
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