On 22 Apr 1999, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:

  Andy Poling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
  > If you'll be doing alot of writing, the controller can use it's memory to
  > coalesce the writes and optimize the parity calculations for writing.
  
  I believe the Linux buffer-cache will try to do the same.
  
but the controller should have a much better idea of optimal
buffering for it's hardware than the linux buffer cache.

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