Subject: Re: io performance...
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman+kernel@fastmail.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:52:10 +0000
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On Gwe, 2006-01-20 at 12:09 +0800, Max Waterman wrote:
> I'm not sure what difference it makes if the controller is battery 
> backed or not; if the drives are gone, then the card has nothing to 
> write to...will it make the writes when the power comes back on?

Yes it will, hopefully having checked first before writing. The higher
end ones you can even pull the battery backed ram module out, change the
raid card and it will do it.

Alan

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