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On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:43, Daniel wrote: |
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> You could also disable all write caching by issuing the command: |
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> hdparm -W0 /dev/<your-physical-disk-name> |
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emm, no, |
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That only deactivates the on-disk cache and has nothing to do with the kernel |
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caches&buffers. In fact, it has nothing to do with the kernel at all. |
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Deactivating the cache might be a good thing in certain situations, but it |
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usually just decreases performance. So it is usually a BAD THING(tm). |
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