On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Jeff Pierce wrote:
> How do you disable the disk caching feature of the Linux ext2fs file
> system?
> I asked somebody recommended chattr, but this is for a single file. I
> want it disabled completely so when a file is written and closed it is
> done IMMEDIATELY.
>
> This, I believe is necessary in an embedded system that is started and
> shutdown via the power switch.
You want to look at running with the disk read only, or
running from a ramdisk.
For what you are talking about now, at sync after defaults in
fstab, ie
/dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults,sync
This will sync mount the entire partition.
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