Les Mikesell wrote:
> Are there any good options to configure a filesystem so most activity
> takes place in the RAM buffer with the flush to physical media allowed
> to lag very far behind? OpenNMS does some data collection that keeps
> the disk very busy. I don't want to lose the history completely in a
> crash like you would with a ramdisk, but it wouldn't be a big problem if
> only the last 10-30 minutes would be dropped.
see the commit option for ext3
commit=nrsec
Sync all data and metadata every nrsec seconds. The default
value is 5 seconds. Zero means default.
nate