On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:51 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: [ ... ]
> The magic phrase is "buffer cache has been flushed". In the real world > of discs with cache there is no way to be certain when the data is > REALLY on the disc. That is why things get clobbered if the power is > cycled to the disc too soon after syncing and why a sleep (or typing > sync three times) is still a good idea and probably always will be. > Please understand that this is an honest question but isn't that true only of IDE heritage drives. E.g. If a SCSI drive with Tagged Queuing says that the the bits have been written doesn't it mean that the bits have really been written? -- Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
