Document that many solid-state drives have volatile write-back caches.
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<chapter id="wal">
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<title>Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log</title>
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same concerns about data loss exist for write-back drive caches as
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exist for disk controller caches. Consumer-grade IDE and SATA drives are
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particularly likely to have write-back caches that will not survive a
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power failure. To check write caching on <productname>Linux</> use
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power failure. Many solid-state drives also have volatile write-back
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caches. To check write caching on <productname>Linux</> use
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<command>hdparm -I</>; it is enabled if there is a <literal>*</> next
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to <literal>Write cache</>; <command>hdparm -W</> to turn off
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write caching. On <productname>FreeBSD</> use
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