Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
Daniels advice is actually the best that you can get. It will give you the smallest chance of corruption due out of order journal commits that caching can cause.
While this is true, it also may dramatically lower the mean time to failure for your disk, due to increased ware and tear - consumer ATA drives are designed to operate with the write cache on.
If you cannot afford to lose data due to poweroff corruption, then the only viable solution is a RAID card that includes battery backup (e.g. 3Ware and Areca sell these).
regards mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
