Re: Disabling disk caches [Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/sys, re sync(1)]

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Subject: Re: Disabling disk caches [Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/sys, re sync(1)]
From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:16:55 +0000 (UTC)

ad%NetBSD.org@localhost (Andrew Doran) writes:

>(a) Automatically disable the disk write cache the moment a file system is
>    mounted on the disk, unless that file system is known to handle caching.

This would cripple half of the existing systems.

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