diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml index 1cc5c6f7eb..b69bc0be68 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ particularly likely to have write-back caches that will not survive a power failure, though ATAPI-6 introduced a drive cache flush command (FLUSH CACHE EXT) that some file systems use, e.g. ZFS. - Many solid-state drives also have volatile write-back + Many solid-state drives (SSD) also have volatile write-back caches, and many do not honor cache flush commands by default. To check write caching on Linux use hdparm -I; it is enabled if there is a * next