Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:09:14 +0800 | From | Max Waterman <> | Subject | Re: io performance... |
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Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 21:14 +0800, Max Waterman wrote: >> So, if I have my raid controller set to use write-back, it *is* caching >> the writes, and so this *is* a bad thing, right? > > Depends on your raid controller. If it is battery backed it may well all > be fine.
Eh? Why?
I'm not sure what difference it makes if the controller is battery backed or not; if the drives are gone, then the card has nothing to write to...will it make the writes when the power comes back on?
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