[LUNI] Does sync after umount do any good?

[Mark E. Matula]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Seva Epsteyn wrote:

> > > 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.
> 
> This seems entirely unnecessary, take a look at the bdflush man page, it's 
> already running on your system.  And yes, there is a performance hit.
> 
> This whole thread is kind of odd, if the data is that important and you are 
> not worried about performance, just mount the filesystem -o sync.

And perhaps look into getting a UPS.

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Mark Matula
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