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Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:50, Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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>> Then I would propose you to use "hdparm -W0 /dev/(what-ever)" to |
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>> disable the write caching (no matter which FS you use). Nothing can |
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>> give 100% guarantee against power failure. |
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> This disables only hard disk cache. If I understand correctly, the |
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> caching done by the kernel (ie, by the filesystem driver) happens in |
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> RAM, /before/ data is sent to disk. Did I miss something? |
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I think that's what Daniel intended. If you were *really* paranoid |
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about power outages, you could do that AND mount your FS with -o sync... |
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