Seth Mos wrote:
>
> At 17:57 4-9-2001 +0200, utz lehmann wrote:
> >Hi Eric
> >
> >Eric Sandeen [sandeen@xxxxxxx] wrote:
> > > But in any case, it occurred to me that you could make /etc on it's own
> > > partition, and mount that O_SYNC - I don't think that would be too much
> > > overhead, /etc doesn't get written that much on a normal system (?). If
> > > Oracle puts config files elsewhere, you could simlink them onto this
> > > filesystem.
> >
> >You can't make /etc on a different partition than /.
> >/etc, /sbin, /dev (without devfs) must on the / partition otherwise your
> >system will not boot.
>
> 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 ;)
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