On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Edgar Fuß <e...@math.uni-bonn.de> wrote: >> Doesn't this depend on filesystem journaling? > Can someone please enlighten me? > Is it safe to use write cacheing on a SATA drive with FFS/WAPBL on it?
AFAIK it depends on the drive, if it doesn't lie about the command to flush the cache it's safe. WAPBL sends such a command on commit.
