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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:37:16 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:28 AM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
 =A0this is the same
> dillema any non content-addressed disk has. =A0performance
> vs. safety. =A0and of course one size doesn't fit all, so there are knobs=
 in
> most disks to turn off write caching.

it's not as obvious a tradeoff as it seems.

Anyway, I'm more interested in hearing from people who do something
with the code.

ron