On 14 Feb 2011, at 10:30am, Max Vlasov wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
> 
>> Can you expand upon your conclusion ?  I like your test, and am interested
>> to know precisely where you think the lag is happening.
> 
> Simon, the conclusion came from the assumption that if the lag is at the OS
> level then unplugging usb cord from powered hd box should also lead to bad
> results, but it doesn't. I.e. only in case of keeping power for unplugged hd
> box, the last commit reported by sqlite as successful is actually written.
> So looks like windows takes very seriously the option "optimize for quick
> removal" for removable drives. But both examples show that the drive itself
> doesn't obey this option. On the other side SATA/PATA drives connected
> directly to the motherboard have option "enable writing cache" that is
> explained like hardware-only option, maybe in this case one can actually
> affect how the drive is responding, but in contrary to usb tests, these ones
> are harder to make.

Okay.  Nice piece of work.

simon.
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