[LUNI] Does sync after umount do any good?

[paulr]

Larry Garfield wrote:
> paulr wrote:
> 
>> Hitting sync at the command line everytime you do
>> something that  deletes/creates/changes a lot of
>> data seems like a hell of a good idea to me.  I con-
>> sider it to be a safe computing practice that can
>> avoid a lot of grief if a little power glitch happens
>> at a strategic moment.
> 
> 
> Even though I'm running ext3, I have a cron job that runs sync every 
> five minutes.  Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to 
> get me.  And there's no performance impact whatsoever as far as I can tell.
> 

Point well taken.  I hadn't thought to do it
this way.  Good idea.


Regards,

Paul


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