Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06T07:12:43Z

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Well, it's fairly hard for the kernel to do much about that - it's almost
> certainly just IDE doing write buffering on the disk itself. No OS
> involved.

I am pushing for WC to be defaulted in the off state, but as you know I
have a bigger fight than caching on my hands...

> I don't know if there is any way to turn of a write buffer on an IDE disk.

You want a forced set of commands to kill caching at init?

Andre Hedrick
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