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From: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
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Subject: Re: Disk hardware caching, performance, and journalling
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> 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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