On Monday 05 January 2009 05:43:29 Alan Cox wrote: > > Huh? I've never heard an assertion that disabling the write cache (I > > assume you mean using write-through caching as opposed to write-back > > caching), shortens the lifespan of disk drives. Aggressive battery > > Thats what I was told by a disk vendor - simply because the drive makes a > lot more mechanical movements and writes. It certainly sounds like less write cacheing would shorten the lifespan of flash devices... Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
