On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:50, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Then I would propose you to use "hdparm -W0 /dev/(what-ever)" to > disable the write caching (no matter which FS you use). Nothing can > give 100% guarantee against power failure.
This disables only hard disk cache. If I understand correctly, the caching done by the kernel (ie, by the filesystem driver) happens in RAM, /before/ data is sent to disk. Did I miss something? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
