On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:09:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:23:32PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > > > Did these users have their disk's write caches set to write-through
> > > > mode rather than write-back mode?  NetBSD doesn't do this by default,
> > > > you have to add code to /etc/rc.local.
> > > 
> > > What code? How one can change the mode?
> > 
> > dkctl wd0 setcache r
> 
> The above seems not just to change write policy, but switch the write cache
> off completely

What, exactly, do you think a "write through" cache is?  "Write through"
means that writes are not delayed by the cache -- period.

Thor