From: Eric Hopper <hopper@omnifarious.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: nosync, an idea for general filesystem mount flag
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:42:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106184205.GC15454@omnifarious.org> (raw)
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Maybe somebody has thought of this before. But I think it would be
useful to have a mount flag telling the filesystem layer that a certain
filesystem never ever needs to be synced, even when the 'sync' system
call is called.
My /tmp, for example, is reformatted on each and every boot. There is
no reason for anything written to /tmp to ever hit the disk. The only
reason is to make room for something else in memory.
I think this could potentially help out notebooks that only had solid
state drives.
Anyway, just a random thought,
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2009-01-06 18:42 Eric Hopper [this message]
2009-01-07 17:35 ` nosync, an idea for general filesystem mount flag Chris Snook
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