Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalsqnt!rpp386!ditka!cocktrice!mdm
From: mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Sync frequency
Message-ID: <342@cocktrice.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 02:02:59 GMT
References: <408@dalek.UUCP>
Reply-To: mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (0000-Mike Mitchell)
Organization: Mike's Playground, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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In article <408@dalek.UUCP> sjb@dalek.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley) writes:
>I would like to increase the "hardness" of my
>file system by increasing the frequency of syncs.
>Does anyone know how to do this?
>Thanks in advance!

Edit your /etc/inittab to include the following line:

u0:234:once:/etc/update > /dev/console 2&>1

Compile the following and place the resulting file in /etc/update:

main()
{
	while (1) {
		sync();
		sleep(30);
	}
}

And you are all set...

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