Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 May 1999 09:54:38 +0000 | From | Steve Bergman <> | Subject | Journalling of Metadata in ext2fs? |
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Hi,
Is there a way (in 2.2.8) to turn on journalling or synchronous writing of metadata without turning on synchronous writing of the data. What are the pros/cons of doing this. I have seen this discussed a long time ago in an thread somewhere in which Linus was debating this with FreeBSD folks but can't find that thread now. It seems to me he said that Linux supportted it but that it was turned off by default because it was "the wrong thing to do". To my mind, however, It could be good for a new server in which the files in the news spool filesystem are numerous small files, none of which are really all that critical individually. Thanks for any input. fsck on large mail servers can be a real pain.
-Steve
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