From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "David Mackay" <monitoreurope@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:40:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31837.1005158412@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011107182035.47243.qmail@web20302.mail.yahoo.com>
monitoreurope@yahoo.co.uk said:
> Is there a method by which we could call the garbage collection
> function on demand? I ask because our 1 meg partion mounted as /var
> will be quite static as we have a ram disk for transient info.
> Therfore we will probably only do a write every 1 hour or so. It would
> therfore pay us to link garbage collection with our FIFO clean up.
You can make the GC thread wake up by sending it a SIGHUP. It'll only do
one operation and then sleep again, though.
What you probably want is a way to tune the thresholds which trigger GC.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-07 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-23 14:39 JFFS David Mackay
2001-10-23 22:00 ` JFFS David Woodhouse
2001-11-07 18:20 ` JFFS David Mackay
2001-11-07 18:40 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2004-09-29 13:28 Jffs lp4u
2004-09-29 15:32 ` Jffs Michael Moedt
2001-05-06 22:36 JFFS Jason Walker
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