Re: Plan: journalling fixes for WAPBL

[Warner Losh <imp%bsdimp.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:01 AM, David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 07:51:32PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>  > > > *if you have the write cache disabled*
>  > >
>  > > *Running with the write cache enabled is a bad idea*
>  >
>  > On ATA devices, you can't permanently disable the write cache. You have
>  > to do it on every power cycles.
>
> There are also drives that ignore attempts to turn off write caching.

These drives lie to the host and say that caching is off, when it
really is still on, right?

Warner