[Gllug] Maintaining music libraries in various formats

[James Hawtin]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 06:54:32AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
>    There was a report that a large cache may lead to lazy writing where
> edits hit the real disc in the wrong order and cause data corruption. Some
> discs were found to even ignore requests to complete a write immediately and
> just indicate that the write was completed because it gives the impression
> of speed to keep the advertisers happy.

And that is why you never use a write cache unless you have battery backup,
perhaps a UPS would be ok, but its not 100%.

James
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