[ltp] laptop as firewall

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:30:48 +0200


On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:05:43 -0400
"D. Sen" <dsen@ieee.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> Tino Keitel wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:35:24 -0700 (PDT)
> > dean gaudet <dgaudet-list-linux-thinkpad@arctic.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>don't forget noatime mount option... also you probably want to
> >>disable crond and atd -- because they wake up the disk too
> >>frequently. 
> > 
> > There is no need to do this things if you use noflushd.
> > 
> Although, if you use reiserfs....you cant use noflushd....right?

Unfortunately you can not use any journaling file system because they
bypass the linux write cache that is controlled by noflushd.

Regards,
Tino