Andrew M. Hoerter wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003, at 20:20 US/Eastern, pwgrant wrote:
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>> Sounds risky, but I want to enable write cachine on an IDE drive on a
>> samba server. How does one do this?
>
>
> It looks like "hdparm -W" does what you want.
Just make sure not to use this with logging filesystems (like ext3, xfs,
reiserfs, etc). If it were possible to only cache journal writes it
wouldn't be so bad, but this disk buffer will cache write commits to the
filesystem itself - which *will* cause mysterious filesystem corruption.
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