Re: technical comparison

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > > 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
> 
> In a subthread, yeah. I think though, the overall issue is the caching
> ext2 does that ufs does not. I'm not even sure that soft updates is
> quite the same thing. I think the soft-updates paper mentions that it
> shouldn't increase risk, while a lot of people feel like ext2 is very
> risky.

Actually, no. Someone *specifically* mentioned that FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE
disables hardware caching on IDE, and Linux does not.

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