James Heather a écrit : > > (3) The write cache is good, and makes the whole system feel very > responsive, but if a machine crashes or there's a power cut, I'm in > danger of them losing lots of work. Is there a way of decreasing the > maximum "dirty" time for writes to the USB stick? I have found lots of > info on doing this for vm paging, but not for the filesystem itself. All > I've found is how to turn off the cache altogether (mount with 'sync'), > but that's not an option because everything will run much too slowly. > I'd far rather set an option to ensure that everything gets written at > most a minute after entering the cache.
Have you already read about "ext4 and data loss"? http://lwn.net/Articles/322823/ -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
