On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:44:45PM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > Turning the drive write cache off is the default case for most RAID > products (including our mid and high end arrays). > > I have not seen an issue with drives wearing out with either setting (cache > disabled or enabled with barriers). > > The theory does make some sense, but does not map into my experience ;-) To be fair though, the gigabytes of NVRAM on the array perform the job that the drive's cache would do on a lower-end system. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
