Re: SCSI vs SATA

From: "James Mansion" <james(at)mansionfamily(dot)plus(dot)com>
To: "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: <jason(at)ohloh(dot)net>, "Geoff Tolley" <geoff(at)polimetrix(dot)com>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SCSI vs SATA
Date: 2007-04-04 18:45:01
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>sure but for any serious usage one either wants to disable that
>cache(and rely on tagged command queuing or how that is called in SATAII
>world) or rely on the OS/raidcontroller implementing some sort of
>FUA/write barrier feature(which linux for example only does in pretty
>recent kernels)

Does anyone know which other hosts have write barrier implementations?
Solaris? FreeBSD? Windows?

The buffers should help greatly in such a case, right? Particularly if
you have quite a wide stripe.

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