Re: [RFC] using writepage to start io

Daniel Phillips
2001-08-07T15:46:30Z

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