Re: synchronous ext2 filesystem

2001-04-26 Thread Seva Adari
If you are 100% sure that your system never breaks down accidentally (say for example due to power loss, cable cut, etc) then it is 100% safe to use asynchronous mode and as you have pointed out there will be performance benefits. However, the probability of things going wrong at the wrong time i

synchronous ext2 filesystem

2001-04-26 Thread John C. Amodeo
Greetings, I know this has come up before, but is the Cyrus policy for reliability still to have the synchronous bit set on a Linux ext2 file system? How damaging could it be if you elect not to use this method (for performance issues?) >>chattr +S . user quota user/* quota/* >>chattr +S /var/s