Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] broken pstree
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 12:01:07
Message-Id: 200406021400.45560.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] broken pstree by Toon Verstraelen
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4 On Wednesday 02 June 2004 12:15, Toon Verstraelen wrote:
5 > Marc Ballarin wrote:
6 > > It is important to note, that all journaling filesystems rely on
7 > > data ordering. If you are using your hard-disk's write cache, things
8 > > can break badly. This is probably the main reason for reiserfs' bad
9 > > reputation.
10 >
11 > Afaik most ide hard disks have write caching switched on for
12 > performance reasons. (At least on my disk this is so. hdparm -i
13 > /dev/hda tells me.) Is their a fast alternative for write caching on
14 > ide disks?
15
16 The best "alternative" is a UPS and hook it up to shut down the computer
17 on power failure.
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19 Paul
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