On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 15:05:47 +0800, Hadders <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'd don't know enough about the Software RAID interaction with the > drives write recovery, but I'd guess that it would probably work. Last > time I used software RAID (about 3 years back, with Seagate disks) I > didn't need to disable the write cache. I was using a combination of > RAID 1 and RAID 5 in the config and everything seemed to work. However, > this is by no means a guarantee your config won't spit the dummy. I'd > advise you do a backup to some other media before you try. That isn't really the issue I was worried about. I wanted to make sure that an sync wouldn't return until after the drives' caches were flushed so that the data would survive a power outage.
