Re: sync & asyck i/o

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:56:47 +0000 (GMT)

> Does this imply that in order to ensure my data hits the drives, i should
> do a warm reboot and then shut down from the lilo: prompt or similiar?

As far as I can tell the IDE drives are write caching at most a second or two
of data. Andre may know more

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