On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Jeff Pierce wrote:

> How do you disable the disk caching feature of the Linux ext2fs file
> system?

I guess mount -o sync

> This, I believe is necessary in an embedded system that is started and
> shutdown via the power switch.

This will limit the amount of damage. The filesystem will be still marked as
dirty. You cam mount it without checking, and do check in the background. If
some inconsistency is reported, then FS should be checked on next startup.

--
Tomek


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