Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:50:32 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: bdflush / update |
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Hi!
> I want to get rid of bdflush/update. Since kflushd almost does the same as > bdflush, I only need to sync perodically, right? What would be the right > approach? To create a new task_struct for a, say, ksync? It certainly > sounds nicer than just plugging it in bdflush..
Right solution is not to do it at all. bdflush does a lot of important things for me, such as spinning down disks. Spindown is pretty complex, so I'd like it out of kernel. Also, I consider it feature to be able to run without bdflush (altrough it is probably trap for novices).
Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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