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Enabling barriers since 2.6.9 and hdparm question

Enabling barriers since 2.6.9 and hdparm question

Posted May 22, 2008 13:40 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Enabling barriers since 2.6.9 and hdparm question by zmi
Parent article: Barriers and journaling filesystems

Interestingly we've had different experience - turning off the write cache actually improved
performance. I'm not sure why, but the whole system was somewhat complicated and we had data
loss. Turning off the write cache solved the data loss problem and had this surprising
side-effect too.


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