Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Englmaier <> | Subject | Re: kupdate & laptop's [patch for integration of mobile-update] | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 1999 20:28:33 -0400 (EDT) |
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> > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Peter Englmaier wrote: > >Maybe a better fix would be to integrate mobile-update in 'kupdate'? > Your patch does "if there's been no disk activity then avoid syncing old > buffers". Unfortunately that breaks the only thing that kupdate has to do > and the only reason we have a [k]update (userspace or kernel) daemon. > kupdate only cares about the dirty buffers in the system and about their > timeout. kupdate has nothing to do with the kind of I/O in progress in the > system. > > mobile-kupdate _won't_ give you any guarantee of disk cohernecy after the > buffers-flushtime, so if you can live without a working [k]update and so > you can deal with tons of last-year-dirty-buffers-not-yet-flushed-on-disk, > then more simply disable kupdate 8). > > Andrea
Hmmm, that sounds like the spell-of-death for my patch, even for my private use. :-) Maybe there is no solution, either I live with the risk or loose a small amount of battery life. I wonder if the original mobile-update was any better, i.e. less risky.
Thanks for all email... Cheers, Peter.
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