Don't resurrect this thread - it already ran long enough the first
time and had plenty of argument advanced on both sides. Go read the
mailing list archives if you feel a deepseated personal need to go
through the decision process in agonizing detail because that's what
we did already.
- Jordan
From: Mike Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc="1"......
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:12:58 -0700 (PDT)
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> > to take. Yes, writes will be faster with write caching enabled. However,
> > its that much more risky incase of power loss.
> <snip>
> > disabled by default. However, it was turned back on as a default a little
> > later.
>
> Hmm. I hope the response to recent performance tests was /not/ to make a
> potentially unsafe option 'default'.
>
> Sometimes 'faster' isn't better - anyone with a brain knows that,
> right? Try replacing an overloaded VAX with a nice x86 box and watch it
> run fast at first, then die smoking under load (humorous story from
> college days ;)... You get my point.
>
> Later,
> -Mike
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