[haiku] Re: Installing on a SSD?

  • From: Bryan Varner <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:01:51 -0500

I would expect that the journal also wouldn't have been persisted to
disc, and lost in the cache.

Thus, the disc would still be in a known, consistent state according to
the journal?


Or am I mistaken?

On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 13:50 -0500, hudsonco1@xxxxxxx wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Allen <ben.allen@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sat, Feb 20, 2010 1:40 pm
> Subject: [haiku] Re: Installing on a SSD?
> 
> >Be warned, however, that if you
> >lose power when there is data in the write cache that hasn't been
> >written to the physical disk, you will likely lose that data.
> 
> 
> Ah. So this kind of write cache would defeat the BFS journaling capability. 
> As it is currently written.
> 
> 
> - Andrew



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