Paul Jarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So for safety, you either have to mount the filesystem with synchonous
> > metadata (as I said above),
>
> But AIUI, you can't mount the filesystem so that *only* metadata is
> synchronous. The sync option makes *all* operations synchronous, so
> performance suffers. Do I have that right?
Quite possibly. It's not a concern for me, as I use Bruce Guenter's SRPM,
which includes an object file shim that automatically syncs the directory when
you sync a file. Thanks to Bruce for pointing out that it is not technically
a "patch".
Charles
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