Sujet : Re: RX2800 sporadic disk I/O slowdowns
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 20. Oct 2024, 02:04:06
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:09:44 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
That is exactly what happens when the cache battery on a RAID controller
dies.
Here’s another question: why does a disk controller need a battery-backed-
up cache? Or indeed any cache at all?
Is this because it tells lies to the OS, saying that the data has been
safely written to disk when in fact it hasn’t?