On Jun 11, Peter Svensson wrote
> sources, but the linux man pages say that they support sychronous writes
> on ext2fs, if mounted with that option.
> 

It does, but performances are a disaster. I get 1Mo/s writes on
a linux mounted sync, about the same on the same filesystem under
NetBSD, and 6Mo/s on a ffs under NetBSD - all on the same drive.

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