On Saturday 25 January 2003 07:09 pm, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> An option i believe for your setup would be to use the data=journal mode
> in ext3, mount all your filesystems with the 'sync' option to ensure data
> really gets written to your disk. Oh, and make sure you turn off the
> write cache of your hard disk also (hdparm -W0)
>
> Contrary to the expctation that speed will actually suffer due to this...
well, the box i need this for doesn't actually have a lot of writing done
to the disk. so even if is slower, i don't mind.
> Also make sure you use the latest kernel prepatches because Andrew Morton
> fixed a data coruption bug in 2.4.20 for ext3 + data=journal mode.
hey, thanks for the very interesting advice. i'm definitely going to try
that.
tiger
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