On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:54 AM, wessels <[email protected]> wrote:

> True, but a harddisk doesn't lie about a write. When a write is done
> the data is on stable storage.


Assuming the hard disk doesn't lie about cache flushes.  That's a fairly
significant caveat, since drives now have notable amounts of internal cache.

-- 
David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington
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