Re: Disk hardware caching, performance, and journalling

Mark Hahn (hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca)
Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:39:44 -0500 (EST)


> So what are the implications here for journalling? Do I have to turn
> off caching and suffer a huge performance hit?

why does everyone get freaked out about disk caches? afaikt,
there's only an O(50ms) window at each catastrophic power failure:
trivial for any reasonable rate of failures...

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