> On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>
> > I seems that we'll need something like "opendir(..., O_SYNC)", or at
> > least a new mount option to default to synchronous directory (only)
> > writes.
>
> We already have one, the sync option for mounting.
I thought this option forces complete sync'ing.
>
> To experiment, try this (as root):
>
> mount -o remount,sync /
>
> Your root fs will now use synchronous meta updates (assuming it's ext2).
>
> In fstab, just insert ,sync after defaults in the options field.
>
> ---
> Stew
> Clan Gangrel
>
Ulrich