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Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: |
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> Daniels advice is actually the best that you can get. It will give |
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> you the smallest chance of corruption due out of order journal commits |
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> that caching can cause. |
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While this is true, it also may dramatically lower the mean time to |
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failure for your disk, due to increased ware and tear - consumer ATA |
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drives are designed to operate with the write cache on. |
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If you cannot afford to lose data due to poweroff corruption, then the |
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only viable solution is a RAID card that includes battery backup (e.g. |
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3Ware and Areca sell these). |
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regards |
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mark |
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