Re: Fwd: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?

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On 07/05/2004 01:26 PM, Nicolas Kowalski wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Norberto Bensa wrote:
>
>
> > how do I setup XFS to not null files after a bad shutdown?
>
> The last time our UPS failed, no files were corrupted because:
>
> - the NFS exports are setup with the sync flag, as recommended,
>
> - [to be verified] Samba shares filesystems with "strict sync" and
>   "sync always" options,
>
> For local files, use the sync attribute (chattr +S) to be sure that file
> contents are flushed on disk. This is usefull when files are frequently
> modified.
Is there any way to set this for an entire filesystem?  Also, there must 
be a performance hit from doing this, right?

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