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Temporary files: RAM or disk?

Temporary files: RAM or disk?

Posted Jun 4, 2012 23:11 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Temporary files: RAM or disk? by giraffedata
Parent article: Temporary files: RAM or disk?

this is a filesystem specific time setting for the filesystem journal. I know it's ~5 seconds on ext3. it could be different on other filesystems.

also, this is for getting the journal data to disk, if the journal is just metadata it may not push the file contents to disk (although it may, to prevent the file from containing blocks that haven't been written to yet and so contain random, old data)


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