On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Michael L. Hitch <mhi...@lightning.msu.montana.edu> wrote: > b) I wouldn't think so. In fact, it may possibly reduce the likelyhood of > a corrupted file system after a crash. With write caching enabled, you may > get more of the disk buffers written to the drive cache rather than sitting > in memory. Anything in memory will be gone after a crash that is unable to > flush any buffers. If the data gets to the drive cache, it should make it > to the disk eventually. Now a crash due to a power failure is a different > story. Anything in the drive's cache would be lost (but then so would > anything sitting in memory). Write caching could also disrupt any ordered > writes done by the OS, which may get data written to the disk in an order > that could lead to corruption.
Doesn't this depend on filesystem journaling? Andy
