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Re:Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners... by scdeepak on Friday September 07, 2012 @10:15PM (#4492003)
Me and my colleagues had worked on a solution to this problem a few years back. The results were published and is linked here.

ACM digital library link - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2056434

The paper - http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/cce-dsn11.pdf

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Re:Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners... by baruch on Saturday September 08, 2012 @03:22PM (#4493727)
That's a really neat hack, but how many disks have you seen that do not adhere to their write-cache-disabled setting?
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