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From: egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Are disk caches safe?
Message-ID: <18855@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 15 May 88 16:59:01 GMT
References: <3343@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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My disk cache (posted to comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st)
is write-through, it never holds unwritten buffers.

The only thing that would make it unsafe is if media change
is not detected, either due to identical serial numbers to faulty hardware.