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On Dec 16, 2004, at 10:27 AM, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> I think it'd be better to add a "Force Unit Access" attribute to 
> writes,
> and have them set when we need the write to bypass the cache. Among 
> other
> things, this action will directly map to SCSI command semantics (i.e. 
> you
> fix the problem for both SCSI and IDE drives).

I think we actually need both explicit "flush whatever is in your cache 
now, please" operations, and FUA-type operations.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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