From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Does XFS support the sync mount option?
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:34:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902090934.59738@zmi.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090206230502.GQ24173@disturbed>
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On Samstag 07 Februar 2009 Dave Chinner wrote:
>> I would be interested to know whether it is reasonable to use XFS in
> > the way I have outlined.
> No, it's not really a reasonable way to use any filesystem.
But what would be? Of course people will pull out an USB stick/drive
wihtout unmounting, and it should be save anyway if
1) disk write cache=off and/or barrier enabled
2) they wait until the light of the USB stick/drive stops blinking after
copying the file onto it. That usually means it's finished.
There will be logs about problems, because it's not a nice way to
shutdown the filesystem, but it should be safe I'd say.
mfg zmi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-05 14:43 Does XFS support the sync mount option? Ewan Chalmers
2009-02-06 23:05 ` Dave Chinner
2009-02-09 8:34 ` Michael Monnerie [this message]
2009-02-12 23:46 ` Ewan Chalmers
2009-02-13 0:39 ` Eric Sandeen
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