| To: | Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: More on write caching |
| From: | Juha Saarinen <juha@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 7 Jul 2001 09:12:48 +1200 (NZST) |
| Cc: | Andrew Klaassen <ak@xxxxxxx>, "linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
| In-reply-to: | <200107061738.f66Hcpb09219@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > Using the rotational power of the spindle to > generate power to move the head to a special track and flush the cache > is not unheard of for instance. My systems integrator friend tells me that certain drives from IBM have large capacitors, which come in handy when the power goes out all of a sudden. For obvious reasons, if the drives are connected to a caching controller, make sure you have an UPS as well... -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 |
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