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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3: kjournald and spun-down disks
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:32:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BFF06CA.71B99D3C@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BFEF71A.F32176FE@zip.com.au> <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111231939000.4162-100000@waste.org>

Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> 
> > Tell me if this is joyful:
> 
> Haven't tried it yet, but I'm afraid I don't see what makes it actually
> sync with the dirty buffer flush. Wouldn't it be better to export a chain
> of flush funcs hung off a timer?

It doesn't sync with kupdate.

If you want to do that, just defeat the journal timer altogether. So:

        transaction->t_expires = jiffies + 1000000000;

in get_transaction().   That way, kupdate's write_super() will
run a commit every bdf_prm.b_un.interval jiffies.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-24  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-24  1:10 ext3: kjournald and spun-down disks Oliver Xymoron
2001-11-24  1:25 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-24  1:58   ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-11-24  2:32     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-11-26  3:15       ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-11-26  3:34         ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-26 15:22           ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-11-26 23:25   ` Daniel Kobras
2001-11-26 23:40     ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27  0:18       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-27  0:03     ` Andre Hedrick
2001-11-27  0:21     ` Oliver Xymoron

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