From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:46:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:46:20 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:56331 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:46:15 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: [RFC] using writepage to start io Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:51:26 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Anton Altaparmakov , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Chris Mason , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: <01080623182601.01864@starship> <01080715292606.02365@starship> <20010807152318.H4036@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20010807152318.H4036@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080717512607.02365@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 07 August 2001 16:23, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:29:26PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Ext3 has its own writeback daemon > > Ext3 has a daemon to schedule commits to the journal, but it uses the > normal IO scheduler for unforced writebacks. Yes. The currently favored journalling mode uses a writeback journal, no? In other words the ext3 journal daemon seems to fit the description pretty well, especially if you have several of them on one disk. -- Daniel