Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

From: Jens Axboe (axboe_at_suse.de)
Date: 07/01/05

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To: Luigi Genoni <genoni@darkstar.linuxpratico.net>

    (don't top post)

    On Fri, Jul 01 2005, Luigi Genoni wrote:
    > problem can be that most disk become too slow to be usable if cache is
    > disabled.

    If you don't do queueing, then yes that is definitely true. ATA/SATA
    (without ncq) is horrible with write cache off. 

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Jens Axboe
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