Subj : Re: Move bookworm system from SSD to NVME
To   : Richard Kettlewell
From : Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Date : Sun Aug 04 2024 04:22:09

On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 19:51:15 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> The alternative is absurdly slow write IO.

Caches cannot increase overall transfer bandwidth, they can only reduce
latency. Which we don’t care about, because OS filesystem cache flushing
is a batch-type operation anyway.

Which is why having these drives lie about when their writes have
completed is such a dumb idea.

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