Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:59:59AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > 1.  Have the ata driver leave the write cache setting
> > alone by default, providing a sysctl which can cause
> > disabled or enabled if requested.  When the default is
> > allowed, put something in dmesg which says "Note: Write
> > caching may be enabled.  See ata(4) for the reliability
> > implications of this."
> 
> You need to look at the code; it would be relatively hard
> to make this runtime tunable instead of boot-time tunable.

Until recently it *was* a sysctl.

Kris

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