Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-10 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > I see that Lenny came to town yesterday. I've been tracking Testing and > yesterday doing an update+upgrade gave me about 230 packages to upgrade. > All went normally and my system is still purring along happily :-) I did > get a warning about hdparm. It said that /dev/hda h

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jonathan Kaye: > > Not being one to argue, I dutifully did #hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda and now > write-caching is no longer enabled. For my own reassurance, was this the > sensible thing to do? You lose some write performance, but apart from that it doesn't hurt and a lot of people think it is a good i

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread CaT
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:43:54AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:39 +1000, CaT wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:28:38AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > DB monkies generally like turning it off as it has proven to cause data > > loss in certain corner cases. Good DB monki

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:39 +1000, CaT wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:28:38AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > caching is still okay to use. Why else would manufacturers put cache > > ON-BOARD the hard-drives if it was BAD... do you think they LIKE > > SPENDING MONEY on things that won't be use

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread CaT
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:28:38AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > caching is still okay to use. Why else would manufacturers put cache > ON-BOARD the hard-drives if it was BAD... do you think they LIKE > SPENDING MONEY on things that won't be used? They would rather just not > include it and save mo

Re: Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 07:03 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > I see that Lenny came to town yesterday. I've been tracking Testing and > yesterday doing an update+upgrade gave me about 230 packages to upgrade. > All went normally and my system is still purring along happily :-) I did > get a warning abo

Disabling Write-Caching

2007-04-09 Thread Jonathan Kaye
I see that Lenny came to town yesterday. I've been tracking Testing and yesterday doing an update+upgrade gave me about 230 packages to upgrade. All went normally and my system is still purring along happily :-) I did get a warning about hdparm. It said that /dev/hda had Write chaching enabled and