From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] More venti sync woes.
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:10:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e4b0cbf1ae2326056214cac10b702ff@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541f95ae5fa2fa9e798ce65fd80b8915@terzarima.net>
> it matters greatly.
> in some cases, if there's a lot to do, don't even bother until dma is on.
> otherwise, it takes simply ages.
regardless of the need to get things onto disk due to memory pressure,
the data's not safe from a momentary power problem until it hits
the disk.
my experience has been that even with upses, power is less reliable than
disks.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 19:32 Anthony Sorace
2007-09-26 19:39 ` Steve Simon
2007-09-26 19:41 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-26 19:49 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-09-27 21:53 ` Russ Cox
2007-09-27 22:49 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-09-27 23:03 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-28 3:16 ` Russ Cox
2007-09-28 9:01 ` Kernel Panic
2007-09-28 16:35 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-09-27 23:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-28 0:10 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-09-28 0:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-28 0:19 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-28 4:01 ` Bruce Ellis
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