On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 09:03:48PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Well, using data journalling with ext3/4 may do what you want. If you > > don't do any fsync, the changes will get written every 5 seconds when > > the automatic journal sync happens (and sub-4k writes will also get > > Hmm. But that would need setting journalling mode per-file, no? > > Like, make it journal data for all the databases, but keep normal mode > for rest of system... You can do that, using "chattr +j file.db". It's apparently not a well known feature of ext3/4.... - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html