Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 27/12/99 Arcady Genkin wrote: > > >If I want to mount a partition with `sync' option, can I keep > >`defaults'? I know `defaults' implies `async', but will explicitly > >specifying `sync' override that? > > yup, just like defaults,ro will mount readonly despite the fact that > defaults includes the rw option. > > sync may not help though, i recently turned it on for the root > filesystem then a few days later i had massive fs corruption on it. > I don't THINK it was related because after the reinstall i left it > async and had it ruined again... > > sync will for sure make the fs unbearably slow.
Yeah, I know. I only want to do it on my root partition. I had a power failure yesterday, and there were problems when I rebooted. On a side note, there is such thing as `softupdates' developed in FreeBSD. Apparently, it allows synced disk I/O comparable in speed to memory-based (async). Is anything like that going to be implemented for ext2fs? (For those of you who haven't heard of softupdates) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/ -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
