Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:27:31 +0100 (CET) | From | Pascal Schmidt <> | Subject | Re: Does Linux sync(2) wait? |
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> >> 20 minutes?! > > He did say it was a magneto-optical drive. > That's 400KiB/s you know - pretty slow.
Yes. It's almost exclusively used once per week for backup purposes. Speed doesn't matter for that (about 400 MB of often changing data on /home), reliability counts.
Data that doesn't really change (old kernel releases and such) is also on MO, but that's "write once, than forget about it", so once again speed doesn't matter that much.
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