Sync frequency

[Mike Mitchell]

In article <408 at dalek.UUCP> sjb at 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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