[LUNI] Does sync after umount do any good?
Mark E. Matula
mmatula at charon.dnsalias.net
Tue Jun 3 16:02:23 CDT 2003
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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