Re: RX2800 sporadic disk I/O slowdowns

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:17:21 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 10/19/2024 11:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:52:16 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

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The context is one where data loss is not acceptable.

 
Data loss is unavoidable. If the power goes out, all computations in
progress get lost. There’s no way around that.

 
True, but that is not the issue.

You said it was.

Think transactions.

Which is an entirely separate thing from data loss. This is about data
integrity.

And those caching disk controllers are useless for ensuring this.