Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:51:38 +0000 | From | Richard Jones <> | Subject | Re: fsync on large files |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > > It is ftp mirror. On ftp mirror, you don't care about data being > lost. If they are, they can be retrieved again. But fsck times are > killing that machine.
You might want to mount the filesystem read-only (except while doing the actual mirror, obviously). That way, if the machine goes down at random, then 95% of the time you won't need to do an fsck at all.
Rich
mount -o remount,ro /mnt mount -o remount,rw /mnt
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