[Fedora-livecd-list] Preventing access to /mnt/live (inter alia)

[James Heather]

On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 19:14 +0000, Mads Kiilerich wrote:

> J.Heather at surrey.ac.uk wrote, On 03/06/2010 10:42 AM:
> > The one thing left to sort is the write cache. One of the machines
> > crashed, and one of them lost quite a lot of her work because it hadn't
> > hit the usb stick by then.
> >    
> 
> Launching something like
>      (while sleep 1; do sync; done) &
> somewhere might help.


Well, I did wonder about that, or a cron job that runs once a minute.
It's something of a kludge, though, and it might make the machine
unresponsive.

There must surely be the equivalent of the dirty_writeback setting for
vm paging? (That sets how long something can remain in the paging write
cache before being written to disk.) It's an obvious thing to have.

James
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