Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

[Luigi Genoni]

problem can be that most disk become too slow to be usable if cache is
disabled.


On Fri, July 1, 2005 15:19, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Jul 01 2005, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 01 2005, David Masover wrote:
>>
>>> Not always possible.  Some disks lie and leave caching on anyway.
>>>
>>
>> And the same (and others) disks will not honor a flush anyways.
>> Moral of that story - avoid bad hardware.
>>
>
> But how does the end-user know what hardware is "good hardware"? Which
> vendors don't lie (or, at least, lie less than others) regarding HDs?
>
>
> Thanks, Rogério Brito.
>
>
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