On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:09:14PM +0800, Max Waterman wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 21:14 +0800, Max Waterman wrote: > >>So, if I have my raid controller set to use write-back, it *is* caching > >>the writes, and so this *is* a bad thing, right? > > > >Depends on your raid controller. If it is battery backed it may well all > >be fine. > > Eh? Why? > > I'm not sure what difference it makes if the controller is battery > backed or not; if the drives are gone, then the card has nothing to > write to...will it make the writes when the power comes back on? some do > > Max. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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