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- From: jeells@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Jarod Eells)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.190335.24454@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:03:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp>
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- Nicholas J. Simicich (njs@scifi.uucp) wrote:
- : In article <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> Neklan_Brozensky@mindlink.bc.ca (Neklan Brozensky) writes:
- :
- : I personally think that another essential for mass-usage is going to
- : be a filesystem that doesn't require sync() or fsck. This isn't an
- : impossible task, and yes, there is a performance hit, but I don't
- : think you are going to sell a system to the masses that they can't
- : turn off whenever they want to.
- :
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- Wouldn't the easiest thing be to turn off sync while in single user mode?
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