On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:39:51PM -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Tadayuki OKADA wrote:
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I've heard that it always keeps consistency.
So you can skip fsck after the crash.
#I don't know the detail, so please someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I've had a number of
On Fri, 04 May 2001 18:42:54 -0700
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why 'soft update' is not default?
It adds performance and stability, doesn't it?
It requires disabling of write caching, which typically reduces
performance (significantly).
If this is the only problem, I think
Gee, maybe in another few years IDE will have implement the *entire*
SCSI command set! Now wouldn't that be progress! Not!
You will never see me turn on tagged queueing for IDE. If performance
is an issue, SCSI is the solution. I want my data cooked over-easy
thank you
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WCE very dangerous. WCE very dangerous. WCE very dangerous.
True, but since the new ATA driver was installed in STABLE about February 25,
WCE has also become mandatory for my NEC Versa 6050 MX laptop. If I don't set
hw.ata.wc=1, kernel buffers become corrupted.
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
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Hello Charlie,
Sunday, May 06, 2001, 1:53:20 AM, you wrote:
I see the same behaviour on one of those disks, too. But - aren't IBM's
DTLA-series disks the only IDE drives that support TCQ?
[ It's a -very-
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
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Hello Charlie,
Sunday, May 06, 2001, 1:53:20 AM, you wrote:
IBM DLTA-307030 Ultra ATA drive (tags/no WC vs. no tags/WC). With
neither
option, it is terrible, of course.
I see the same behaviour on one of
Nick Barnes wrote:
This sounds as if there isn't _any_ way for the kernel (or, better, an
application) to make sure that its bits have got written. Is that
really true? Shouldn't the man pages for fsync(1), fsync(2), and
sync(8) reflect this? sync(2) has something under BUGS
Sure
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 09:31:09 -0700
From: Nick Sayer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That may be the original intent, but cheap IDE drives let you turn on
write caching, and they're for sure not battery-backed (nor do they
attempt to store enough power at power-off to
