linux-kernel - nosync, an idea for general filesystem mount flag

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Date:	Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:42:05 -0800
From:	Eric Hopper <hopper@...ifarious.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: nosync, an idea for general filesystem mount flag

Maybe somebody has thought of this before.  But I think it would be
useful to have a mount flag telling the filesystem layer that a certain
filesystem never ever needs to be synced, even when the 'sync' system
call is called.

My /tmp, for example, is reformatted on each and every boot.  There is
no reason for anything written to /tmp to ever hit the disk.  The only
reason is to make room for something else in memory.

I think this could potentially help out notebooks that only had solid
state drives.

Anyway, just a random thought,
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