Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:42:05 -0800 | From | Eric Hopper <> | Subject | nosync, an idea for general filesystem mount flag |
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Maybe somebody has thought of this before. But I think it would be useful to have a mount flag telling the filesystem layer that a certain filesystem never ever needs to be synced, even when the 'sync' system call is called.
My /tmp, for example, is reformatted on each and every boot. There is no reason for anything written to /tmp to ever hit the disk. The only reason is to make room for something else in memory.
I think this could potentially help out notebooks that only had solid state drives.
Anyway, just a random thought, -- I am not an LKML member, so please include me in the 'To' or 'Cc' field if you want me to see your message. -- Eric Hopper (hopper ^at^ omnifarious ^dot^ ^o^ ^r^ ^g^) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |