Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:46:59 -0500 | From | Gregory Maxwell <> |
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:14:15PM +0100, David Balazic wrote: [snip] > Hardware Level caching is only good for OSes which have broken > drivers and broken caching (like plain old DOS). > > Linux does a good job in caching and cache control at software > level.
Read caching, yes. But for writes, the drive can often do a lot more optimization because of it's synchronous operation with the platter and greater knowledge of internal disk geometry.
What would be useful, as Alan said, is a barrier operation. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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