Frequent Power Failures

[Joshua Lewis]

I think I found the setting. Ironic is was the next setting. Is this the
correct setting to help prevent data loss (at from what I guess is a MAJOR
performance hit.)

hw.ata.wc




Thank you,
Joshua Lewis



Joshua Lewis
> My office is located in Southern California and of late we have had almost
> ten power failures.
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> I have set up my first FreeBSD box and am learning quickly. If my memory
> serves I recall Unix writes to disk as little as possible to keep the
> system running at peak efficiency. However I don't want to risk data loss.
> So until I can get a UPS (that is absolutely next on my list) I want set
> the system to write to the disk as soon as possible.
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> I am currently looking through sysctl in the handbook to find some setting
> that may enable writing data immediately.
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> Am I in the correct place? There are A LOT of settings here can anyone
> point me to the correct setting so I don't spend the rest of my life
> reading.
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> Thank you,
> Joshua Lewis
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