Helge Oldach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> Generally I'd say it's not a bad idea to have write caching on the disk
> enabled - assuming that it is decently implemented. BTW, don't SCSI
> disks use write cacheing as well? :-)
Yes, they do. And it's recommended that you turn it off if you turn on
softupdates. The driver doesn't do it for you, though.
I'd be interested to know details about why softupdates makes it more
critical to have write caching off.
<mike
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