Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:32:42 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: ext3: kjournald and spun-down disks |
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Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > > Tell me if this is joyful: > > Haven't tried it yet, but I'm afraid I don't see what makes it actually > sync with the dirty buffer flush. Wouldn't it be better to export a chain > of flush funcs hung off a timer?
It doesn't sync with kupdate.
If you want to do that, just defeat the journal timer altogether. So:
transaction->t_expires = jiffies + 1000000000;
in get_transaction(). That way, kupdate's write_super() will run a commit every bdf_prm.b_un.interval jiffies.
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