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Re: [MiNT] MiNT, CT60 and power off
Hello!
> As far as I know, there are two types of filesystem cache operation:
> write-back and write-through. The "dangerous" one is the first one. It
> should only be active when you explicitly enable it using the WB_ENABLE in
That's not true. ext2 and minix use write back caching per default.
> your mint.cnf. Otherwise only the write-through cache is active, which only
> serves as read cache and does not affect writes (all data are written
> immediately to the media).
Btw. there are no different caches. It's just a matter of the strategy of
handling modified cache data (that can be set for each drive seperatly
to either write-through or write-back).
Ciao
...Frank
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