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
--
Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/
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next prev 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
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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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