Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 02:12:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 02:12:33 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-195-162-81.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.195.162.81]:41227 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 02:12:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:12:05 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: Linus Torvalds cc: Douglas Gilbert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Well, it's fairly hard for the kernel to do much about that - it's almost > certainly just IDE doing write buffering on the disk itself. No OS > involved. I am pushing for WC to be defaulted in the off state, but as you know I have a bigger fight than caching on my hands... > I don't know if there is any way to turn of a write buffer on an IDE disk. You want a forced set of commands to kill caching at init? Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court Fax: 1-408-941-2071 Milpitas, CA 95035 Web: www.aslab.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/