[Info-vax] RX2800 sporadic disk I/O slowdowns

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:17:21 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 10/19/2024 11:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:52:16 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>> The context is one where data loss is not acceptable.
>> 
>> Data loss is unavoidable. If the power goes out, all computations in
>> progress get lost. There’s no way around that.
> 
> True, but that is not the issue.

You said it was.

> Think transactions.

Which is an entirely separate thing from data loss. This is about data 
integrity.

And those caching disk controllers are useless for ensuring this.