Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:10:59 +1000 | From | Nathan Scott <> | Subject | Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck? |
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On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:16:02AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > L A Walsh wrote: > >Now I know it takes a while before data may end up on disk and that it > >may not go out to disk in an ordered fashion, but 2-3 days? > > Seems strange to me, but the amount of delay is entirely up to the > filesystem.
The flushing of dirty file data is actually performed by kernel threads outside of the individual filesystems.
I cannot explain a 2/3 day wait for data to get flushed, something really strange going on for you there.
cheers.
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