[ltp] laptop as firewall

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, D. Sen wrote:
> > There is no need to do this things if you use noflushd.
> >
> Although, if you use reiserfs....you cant use noflushd....right?

Correct, reiserfs's journal sync bypasses the kernel code that noflushd
uses for delaying disk access.

Also, cron and atd should still be stopped.  noflushd delays writes
as they can be buffered until later without blocking the process doing the
write.  Reads, on the other hand, cannot be delayed without blocking the
process waiting for the data to come back from the read().

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