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author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2012-02-14 17:41:57 -0500 |
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committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2012-02-14 17:42:06 -0500 |
commit | 58d746213d3defb84947ff1407e6cb0eabb26f38 (patch) | |
tree | 0ff510711fcfdc733b23f0d0399df1015a9111ae /doc/src | |
parent | 398f70ec070fe60151584eaa448f04708aa77892 (diff) | |
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Improve fsync documentation by stating that -W _0_ turns of write
caching.
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml index 1d1924bc8df..0afb9d6af60 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ <para> On <productname>Linux</>, IDE drives can be queried using <command>hdparm -I</command>; write caching is enabled if there is - a <literal>*</> next to <literal>Write cache</>. <command>hdparm -W</> + a <literal>*</> next to <literal>Write cache</>. <command>hdparm -W 0</> can be used to turn off write caching. SCSI drives can be queried using <ulink url="http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdparm.html"><application>sdparm</></ulink>. Use <command>sdparm --get=WCE</command> to check |