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Re: Locking problems

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Subject: Re: Locking problems
From: Skylar Thompson <skylar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:46:53 -0500
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:36:32AM +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
> 
> Chris Tooley schrieb:
> > 
> > No, they are SCSI disks in a software mirror.  I'm using the software
> > raid setup in the 2.4.19 kernel as it was as recent as possible.
> 
> It could still be a write caching problem, if they cycle power often.
> Today, most SCSI disks have write cache enabled by default and that can
> be quite dangerous with XFS in case of power failure.

Don't SCSI disks respond correctly to no-cache commands though?

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