Re: System lock while accessing files causes file corruption

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:01 5-9-2001 +0200, Peter Wächtler wrote:
> Seth Mos wrote:
> > If you use a decent layout fopr your data it does not matter.
> > If you have a separate /usr /var /tmp /home like most servers do you could
> > just mount your / fs O_SYNC since it would only have a _very_ slight
> > performance loss since you almost never write to the root fs. :-)
> >
>
> What about the access time? If you mount your / with sync,noatime
> then it only gets changed when users are logging in
> (chown user.group /dev/pty and alike).
>
> But yes, it's still acceptable ;)
Remember, these operations are metadata operations and these _do_ get 
journaled. It's just to protect the the data files from magically getting 
emptied if you had just touched them.
Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.