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2009 Oct 21
1
'Extremely lazy' disk flush?
Are there any good options to configure a filesystem so most activity takes place in the RAM buffer with the flush to physical media allowed to lag very far behind? OpenNMS does some data collection that keeps the disk very busy. I don't want to lose the history completely in a crash like you would with a ramdisk, but it wouldn't be a big problem if only the last 10-30 minutes would
2005 Sep 17
2
turning off journaling on the fly?
Dear penguin lovers, =) I'm running Linux (2.6) on a satellite receiver with harddrive. The latter is formated in ext3. So far, everthing works fine. Now here's the small problem: The receiver is in the same room I sleep in and when it records at night time I can hear the journaling going on (heads clicking - even though the HD is set to silent mode via hdparm). This is surely due to the
2005 Mar 10
3
a few questions about ext3 journal
A few wild ideas/questions : 1) Is there a way to check the size of the journal of an ext3 filesystem ? I mean - the actually used size ; not the total size of the journal. 2) Would it be difficult to implement "freeze" of ext3 filesystem - that is, blocking all I/O to the filesystem until it's "unfrozen" (XFS can do that), for two purposes : A/ allowing