Greg Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Guy Thornley wrote:
>
> > I've yet to find a drive that lies about write completion. The problem
> > is that the drives boot-up default is write-caching enabled (or perhaps
> > the system BIOS sets it that way). If you turn an IDE disks write cache
> > o
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Guy Thornley wrote:
I've yet to find a drive that lies about write completion. The problem
is that the drives boot-up default is write-caching enabled (or perhaps
the system BIOS sets it that way). If you turn an IDE disks write cache
off explicity, using hdparm or similar
> > That's not quite what I meant by "trust". Some drives lie about the
> > flush.
>
> Is that really true, or a misdiagnosed software bug?
I've yet to find a drive that lies about write completion. (*)
The problem is that the drives boot-up default is write-caching enabled (or
perhaps the syst
toby wrote:
>
> That's not quite what I meant by "trust". Some drives lie about the
> flush.
Is that really true, or a misdiagnosed software bug?
I know many _drivers_ lie about flushing - for example EXT3
on Linux before early 2005 "did not have write barrier support
that issues the FLUSH CACH
