*Hey folks,* * *
*Something that was mentioned a week or two back and I meant to follow up but never did was changing cache mode for Linux's disk writes. How does one accomplish that and can it be done on an individual drive basis? I.e. Suppose I am using a set of hard disks in USB3 or eSATA enclosures to backup my home system. If I backup the entire raid (i.e. dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/md1) then how do I make sure that all the data was properly written to the drives in md1 before I disconnect the drives and turn them off (since they're in enclosures I can simply turn the enclosures off)? I don't want to write that way, only to assume that everything is OK and find out later that something didn't get written right. And yes, I know I could simply do an individual file backup, and that's on the agenda too. But even then, unless unmounting the md1 would force all cached data to be written immediately anyway. But I am considering both options. So I would appreciate it if someone could explain to me (since I've never tried before) how you can go about disabling write caching to an individual drive. * * * *Thanks!* *--- Dan* /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
