Re: synchronous mounts

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 08:37:26 EST

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May I suggest another way of thinking about this issue. ext3 allows one
to journal everything, or just metadata. Why -avoid- this distrinction
when it comes to the 'sync' mount option (and 'dirsync' or 'metasync')?

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