On Wed, 23 May 2001, Shannon wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:54:40PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > 1. I don't think I've ever seen a Linux distro which has write
> > caching enabled by default. Hell, DMA33 isn't even enabled
> > by default ;)
>
> You are talking about controlling the IDE drive cache.
>
> The issue here is write cache in the filesystem code.
1) IIRC they were talking about hw.ata.wc
2) soft-updates _is_ a form of write cache in the
filesystem code, in fact, that's one of the points
of soft-updates in the first place ;)
regards,
Rik
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