[ale] USB->IDE problems

[Christopher Fowler]

I thought there was away you could tell the kernel to send stuff
directly to disk and not buffer it.

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:48, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Ext3 would be a better bet than ext2. The important thing would be a
> tweak to somehow force frequent sync to avoid file corruption. I don't
> think that is an hdparm setting. Maybe it could be a cron job
> 
> if { `grep -c "/dev/sda" /etc/mtab` != 0 }; then
> sync
> fi
> 
> (I wouldn't trust that script with anything as I am sure the syntax is
> wrong)
> 
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:54, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > The next question would be how to best deal with file systems of this
> > nature.  Since anyone could unplug the drive ext2 would not be a good
> > choice.  Would ext3 be a good choice?  I want to be able to unplug and
> > plug the device back in without fs corruption.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:43, James P. Kinney III wrote:
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