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Re: Plan: journalling fixes for WAPBL



On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 07:51:32PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > > > *if you have the write cache disabled*
 > > 
 > > *Running with the write cache enabled is a bad idea*
 > 
 > On ATA devices, you can't permanently disable the write cache. You have
 > to do it on every power cycles.

There are also drives that ignore attempts to turn off write caching.

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David A. Holland
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