On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:51:21PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > When using ATA drives, I have to make a choice between write caching or soft > > updates, since write caching with soft updates creates an unsafe situation. > > I assume by 'write caching' you mean async.
No. I think he meant caching by the disk device (see the note about
atactl writecachedisable).
Ciao,
Kili

