On Wed Sep 27, 2000 at 11:55:34AM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 05:02:03 -0700, peter johnson wrote:
>
> >Puh-leez!
> >Use flush(2) after each write of critical data and the imagined disaster
> >will not occur. I wonder where "decision makers" get their
> >disinformation???
>
> I'm sure that all those people working on riserfs and ext3 will be happy to know
>that you
> have solved all thier problems with one system call. *grin*
>
I've found this is about as safe as such things can get...
mount / -o remount,rw,nodiratime,noatime,sync
<write stuff>
<move the stuff you wrote to its final position (on top of existing files)>
mount / -o remount,ro
-Erik
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