| 1 | .\" Title: vfs_commit
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| 3 | .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.73.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
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| 4 | .\" Date: 08/27/2008
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| 5 | .\" Manual: System Administration tools
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| 6 | .\" Source: Samba 3.2
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| 7 | .\"
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| 8 | .TH "VFS_COMMIT" "8" "08/27/2008" "Samba 3\.2" "System Administration tools"
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| 12 | .ad l
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| 13 | .SH "NAME"
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| 14 | vfs_commit - flush dirty data at specified intervals
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| 15 | .SH "SYNOPSIS"
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| 16 | .HP 1
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| 17 | vfs objects = commit
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| 18 | .SH "DESCRIPTION"
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| 19 | .PP
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| 20 | This VFS module is part of the
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| 21 | \fBsamba\fR(7)
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| 22 | suite\.
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| 23 | .PP
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| 24 | The
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| 25 | vfs_commit
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| 26 | VFS module keeps track of the amount of data written to a file and synchronizes it to disk when a specified amount accumulates\.
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| 27 | .PP
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| 28 | vfs_commit
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| 29 | is useful in two circumstances\. First, if you have very precious data, the impact of unexpected power loss can be minimized by a small commit:dthresh value\. Secondly, write performance can be improved on some systems by flushing file data early and at regular intervals\.
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| 30 | .PP
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| 31 | This module is stackable\.
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| 32 | .SH "OPTIONS"
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| 33 | .PP
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| 34 | commit:dthresh = BYTES
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| 35 | .RS 4
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| 36 | Synchronize file data each time the specified number of bytes has been written\.
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| 38 | The following suffixes may be applied to BYTES:
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| 48 | K
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| 49 | \- BYTES is a number of kilobytes
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| 61 | \- BYTES is a number of megabytes
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| 73 | \- BYTES is a number of gigabytes
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| 75 | .RE
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| 76 | .RE
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| 77 | .SH "EXAMPLES"
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| 78 | .PP
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| 79 | Synchronize the file data on the [precious] share after every 512 kilobytes (524288 bytes) of data is written:
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| 81 | .RS 4
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| 82 | .nf
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| 83 | \fI[precious]\fR
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| 84 | \fIpath = /data/precious\fR
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| 85 | \fIvfs objects = commit\fR
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| 86 | \fIcommit:dthresh = 512K\fR
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| 87 | .fi
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| 88 | .RE
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| 89 | .SH "CAVEATS"
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| 90 | .PP
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| 91 | On some systems, the data synchronization performed by
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