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From: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
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Subject: Re: aha1542b and Wren V
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Date: 6 Sep 90 18:57:30 GMT
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In article <2344@sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes:
>
>I was told by a Unix consultant that 'read ahead cache' should NOT
>be enabled on Unix systems.  This has something to do with the fact
>that Unix does its own caching (buffering), and if the drive does
>caching too, things could get confused in case of a power failure.
>

This is why all Unix machines doing Real(tm) work have a UPS
(something less that 1/2 :-)).

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	ken seefried iii		ken@dali.gatech.edu

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