> If I'm not mistaken, you can mount your partitions with the 'sync' option.
> This should give you similar results, with a slight performance penalty.
It's more like a huge performance penalty, e.g. I've measured 80kbyte/s
writes which is close to a factor 100 slower than with async. Of course
it isn't a fair comparison since you do get safe data writes, but if what
you need is safe metadata and usable performance ext2fs doesn't have it.
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Mats Lofkvist
mal@algonet.se
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