Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f84GXgn26665 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:33:42 -0700 Received: from moutvdom01.kundenserver.de (moutvdom01.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.200]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f84GXdd26612 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:33:39 -0700 Received: from [195.20.224.208] (helo=mrvdom01.schlund.de) by moutvdom01.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15eJ8r-00003M-00; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:33:37 +0200 Received: from pd901e253.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.1.226.83] helo=kernelpanix.aura.of.mankind) by mrvdom01.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15eJ8r-0002m1-00; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:33:37 +0200 Received: (from utz@localhost) by kernelpanix.aura.of.mankind (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f84FvsN14161; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:57:54 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: kernelpanix.aura.of.mankind: utz set sender to xfs@s2y4n2c.de using -f Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:57:54 +0200 From: utz lehmann To: Eric Sandeen Cc: "Gonyou, Austin" , "'Seth Mos'" , XFS mailing list Subject: Re: System lock while accessing files causes file corruption Message-ID: <20010904175754.A14064@s2y4n2c.de> References: <85063BBE668FD411944400D0B744267A888526@AUSMAIL> <3B94F726.E978C299@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B94F726.E978C299@sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hi Eric Eric Sandeen [sandeen@sgi.com] 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. utz