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- <li><em>date</em>: Wed Jan 21 14:35:04 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: ups at stups.com (Stephan Uphoff)</li>
- <li><em>in-reply-to</em>: Message from Christopher Fowler <[email protected]> of "21 Jan 2004 12:15:16 EST." <<a href="msg00854.html">[email protected]</a>> </li>
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You might also get an unreadable sector if you unplug the drive while it is
writing
... but there is nothing you can do about it.
Stephan
> I thought there was away you could tell the kernel to send stuff
> directly to disk and not buffer it.
>
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:48, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Ext3 would be a better bet than ext2. The important thing would be a
> > tweak to somehow force frequent sync to avoid file corruption. I don't
> > think that is an hdparm setting. Maybe it could be a cron job
> >
> > if { `grep -c "/dev/sda" /etc/mtab` != 0 }; then
> > sync
> > fi
> >
> > (I wouldn't trust that script with anything as I am sure the syntax is
> > wrong)
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:54, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > The next question would be how to best deal with file systems of this
> > > nature. Since anyone could unplug the drive ext2 would not be a good
> > > choice. Would ext3 be a good choice? I want to be able to unplug and
> > > plug the device back in without fs corruption.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:43, James P. Kinney III wrote:
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