[SunHELP] UFS logging worth it?

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 09:01:07AM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> Ah, IDE.
> See if you can find in the data sheets for the drive if it is capable of
> doing write-back caching, and if it is enabled.  Some IDE drives will do
> this transparently and if so no amount of sync metadata commits will help
> (as the OS sees the write "committed" to disk immediately).
> -James

Seagate ST34310A.  Appears that write caching IS enabled by default; however,
I cant remember how to change this setting.  I've done it once before with
Solaris on a different kind of IDE drive, I thought it was an option in
the "format" command, but cant find it now....

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX