-
+
Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log
particularly likely to have write-back caches that will not survive a
power failure, though
ATAPI-6> introduced a drive cache
flush command (FLUSH CACHE EXT) that some file systems use, e.g.
ZFS>.
- Many solid-state drives also have volatile write-back
+ Many solid-state drives (SSD) also have volatile write-back
caches, and many do not honor cache flush commands by default.
To check write caching on
Linux> use
hdparm -I>; it is enabled if there is a *> next