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  From: Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:36:42 +0930

Re: Protecting files against power failure

Nick Morrison wrote:

>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, John Kennison wrote:

>> You can always add the sync option to /etc/fstab. However, this will have
>> a harsh penalty with disk writes.

There is also chattr +S; while the man page says this applies to files,
I have seen documentation that says it works with directories as well.

> What about ext3?  Has anybody tried it?  I want to give it a go on an old
> machine that's not going to have a UPS and won't be storing critical data,
> but would be painful to rebuild.

I haven't looked at ext3 for a while - I think there are some nice
competing file systems now (Silicon Graphics are supposed to be Open
Sourcing theirs), so I'm waiting for the dust to settle.  :-)


Regards,
  Daryl Tester

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