Re: fsync on large files

Richard Jones (rich@bibliotech.co.uk)
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:51:38 +0000

Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> It is ftp mirror. On ftp mirror, you don't care about data being
> lost. If they are, they can be retrieved again. But fsck times are
> killing that machine.

You might want to mount the filesystem
read-only (except while doing the actual
mirror, obviously). That way, if the machine
goes down at random, then 95% of the time
you won't need to do an fsck at all.

Rich

mount -o remount,ro /mnt
mount -o remount,rw /mnt

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