Re: RAID Controller Caching and XFS

[Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 13:04, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> More importantly, you don't *want* to use readahead because it will waste
> valuable cache space on the controller that could be used to cache small
> writes.

How safe is it to enable caching for writes on the controller (if you
don't have a battery on it)?
I mean, i configured my Mylex with "Write Through" for data-safety
reasons, even though the other option ("Write Back") could offer
improved performance.

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Florin Andrei

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