On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On mån, 2010-10-25 at 09:33 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> It seems we're still missing some relevant details, because hdparm
>> doesn't seem to work on SCSI devices. Is sdparm the right utility in
>> that case? Does anyone know what the correct incantations look like?
>
> Search the sdparm man page for "Writeback Cache". It has detailed
> examples.
Here's a patch. This adds a few more details about sdparm and makes
it clear that it applies to both FreeBSD and Linux. But, perhaps more
significantly, it rearranges what is currently a fairly long paragraph
into a bulleted list, which I think is more readable. Comments?
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