Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 27 May 1999 06:28:31 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Journalling of Metadata in ext2fs? |
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Hi,
On Sun, 16 May 1999 09:54:38 +0000, Steve Bergman <steve@netplus.net> said:
> 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.
"chattr +S <dirname>" for directory inodes only (or equivalently, "mount -o sync").
> What are the pros/cons of doing this.
It is slower but gives predictable semantics on an unexpected reboot. It doesn't avoid the need for fsck.
--Stephen
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