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SubjectRe: softupdates and ext2
If I'm not mistaken, you can mount your partitions with the 'sync' option.
This should give you similar results, with a slight performance penalty.
I use for my workstation 'coz my office building has bad power and I
haven't gotten a UPS yet...

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tani hosokawa
river styx internet


On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Thomas Pornin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The *BSD have a feature called "softupdates" which seems to be the
> following: writes to a ufs filesystem are not synced on a sector basis
> but according to the filesystem structure, which means that between two
> physical updates, the filesystem is always coherent.
>
> I made some benchs and it seems rather fast (about 5 to 10% slower than
> the async mount, which is what Linux does).
>
> Here is my problem: we have here several Linux PC in hostile environment
> (students) and they are often uncleanly rebooted. The Sun Solaris
> stations nearly always recover automatically, but the Linux stations
> often require a manual root intervention. This upsets our sysadmin.
>
> So.. is there any plan/patch for integrating some softupdate feature to
> ext2 under Linux ? Or is there something I utterly missed ?
>
> --Thomas Pornin
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