-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Price Technology wrote: > I had posted a while back asking about writing data immediately to a > removable > drive, and SYNC was indeed the answer. Thanks to whomever it was that > jogged > my brain on that one. > > My question now is a two parter; > > 1. Is there a setting that will cause the sync operation to happen > automatically at every disk write without me having to enter the > command each > time ?? > 'sync' mount option should do this for file systems that support it. > 2. Am I cutting my own throat by doing such a thing ?? (ie would it > cause > performance problems, increase the chance of data corruption, that > sort of > thing) > Probably. I think it will cause major slowdown if you enable it for hard disks. Pavel. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/VLHlHJityMnHjjERAlV5AKCOz5gyl2KESGNcmKvX4YBeB3RMKgCfTbJD I/2w08mHcou9LPK82KavDsg= =T/zy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
