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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Padraig Brady <padraig@antefacto.com>
Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>,
	Linux-Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Need help tracing regular write activity in 5 s interval
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 06:04:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604120434.GA1386@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020602135501.GA2548@merlin.emma.line.org> <3CFCA2B0.4060501@antefacto.com>

On Tue Jun 04, 2002 at 12:21:20PM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
> As an aside, Nautilus (1.0.4) does stuff every 2 seconds
> (checking is there a CD inserted) that causes the disk LED to flash.
> The same action also causes the kernel (2.4.13) to fill up the ring
> buffer with: "VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)".

This should fix the symptom...

--- linux/fs/block_dev.c.orig	Tue Jun  4 06:03:44 2002
+++ linux/fs/block_dev.c	Tue Jun  4 06:03:44 2002
@@ -582,8 +582,11 @@
 	if (!bdops->check_media_change(dev))
 		return 0;
 
+	#if 0
+	/* Polling buggy CD-ROM drives can fill the logs.  Make it shutup. */
 	printk(KERN_DEBUG "VFS: Disk change detected on device %s\n",
 		bdevname(dev));
+	#endif
 
 	sb = get_super(dev);
 	if (sb && invalidate_inodes(sb))
 -Erik

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-04 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-02 13:55 Need help tracing regular write activity in 5 s interval Matthias Andree
2002-06-04 11:21 ` Padraig Brady
2002-06-04 11:41   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2002-06-04 11:43   ` Xavier Bestel
2002-06-04 12:04   ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2002-06-05 14:08     ` Padraig Brady
2002-06-05 15:13       ` Padraig Brady
2002-06-05 15:50       ` Owen Taylor
2002-06-05 16:43         ` Padraig Brady
2002-06-05 22:22           ` Padraig Brady
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-02 15:25 Thunder from the hill
2002-06-02 15:41 ` Kevin Krieser
2002-06-02 16:12 ` Kenneth Johansson
2002-06-02 20:19 ` Matthias Andree

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