| To: | Christian Rice <xian@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: file corruption |
| From: | Dmitry Nikiforov <dniq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 01 Apr 2004 21:05:51 -0600 |
| Cc: | Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>, Dmitry Nikiforov <dniq_kraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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Christian Rice wrote: > Has anyone mentioned turning off write caching? > > hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda > > > This for me made the difference between rebuilding up to five system > disks per day (out of one hundred desktop workstations, and that was a > couple years ago), and rebuilding...none per day. > > Users unplug and reset workstations without a second thought. Having > data on the drive not flushed is a killer. Then there's no point in using XFS at all, is there? :) -- Regards, DNiq. |
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