Re: kjournald and disk sleeping

Marcos Dione
2001-10-22T21:05:20Z

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Yes, this is a bit of a problem - it's probably atime updates,
> things which write to inodes, etc. A commit will be forced within
> five seconds of this happening.

Reading journal.c I guessed that kjournald flushes thing *even if
it doesn't have things to flush*. I guess that from commit_timeout and
the comments on the thread process, but I can be wrong.

YFI, I issue a /bin/sync before I put the disk to sleep.

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