Why might filesystems managing external storage devices do write-through caching (avoid buffering writes) even though there is a detrimental affect on performance

      

Why might filesystems managing external storage devices do write-through caching (avoid buffering writes) even though there is a detrimental affect on performance

  

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Faith
Write-through caching is necessary on external drives in order to maintain reliability and avoid data loss
in situations where the drive controller is compromised through an event (a kernel panic, power failure,
or most commonly – simply being unplugged) where the buffer cache is lost. It is always much safer to
have critical data written to physical disk blocks, despite the high cost of disk I/O operations.
Titany answered the question on April 26, 2022 at 11:57


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