Re: write cache on 3ware controller and XFS

[Christophe Zwecker <doc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 22:55, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> Okay, you _probably_ have _too_new_ of a firmware for your driver!  If find 
> the
> stock kernel lags 3Ware by 6-12 months, and 3Ware almost always introduces a 
> new
> driver with each new firmware release.
> 
> I'd say you found your problem then.  Be sure to _always_ install the driver
> with the firmware image you get from 3Ware.  They even include a Makefile to
> make things easy.

ill compare the 3ware driver with the one in 2.4.19 thx for the hint
> 
> Or don't you read things like READMEs???  ;-P

hehe, I always read em :-)

again, I wonder, if I have an USV attached to the server and it shuts it
down properly, I minimize the risk of dataloss with writecache enabled,
or not.
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