Re: System lock while accessing files causes file corruption

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

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. :-)

Cheers

--
Seth
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it was written and another for which it wasn't
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