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Re: corrupt inode

To: Linux XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: corrupt inode
From: Florin Andrei <florin@sgi.com>
Date: 08 Aug 2001 16:09:55 -0700
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On 06 Aug 2001 14:50:50 +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> 
> And the list goes on and on and on with Maildir entries and some MSIE
> cache stuff. Thank God this is not our Samba data repository. Mail is
> critical but I can live with losses.

On a server that's not very loaded, i think it's ok to run "sync" every
now and then, if the data is extremely important.
Run it every minute from cron, or at the end of every script that's
doing funny things with your data.
But if your server has a lot of disk I/O, then "sync" is not a good
idea.

-- 
Florin Andrei

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