begin quoting David Brown as of Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:34:58PM -0700: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 06:27:17PM -0700, SJS wrote: > > >-- > >I actually never had a problem with ext2. Of course, I have a cron'd sync. > > This is kind of an odd thing to do, since there's already a kernel > task doing the same thing.
When I can type "sync" on a long-running yet-mostly-idle system and have the system take a noticeable (wall-clock) amount of time writing to the disks, I fail to have a warm fuzzy. When this happens, I put in a sync hack. And, frankly, I'm not really interested in chasing down the /why/. I have a mitigation strategy, and other things to do. -- Thank god the strategy isn't "reboot every friday". Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
