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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre10aa1
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 18:58:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D001363.BDEBD682@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020607003413.GH1004@dualathlon.random>

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> ...
> Only in 2.4.19pre10aa1: 90_ext3-commit-interval-1
> 
>         Avoid laptops to waste energy despite kupdate interval is set
>         to 2 hours with ext3. kjournald has no right to choose
>         "how frequently" we should look for old transactions, that's
>         an user problem. journaling doesn't enforce how much old data
>         we can lose after a 'reboot -f', it only enforces that the
>         metadata or even the data will be coherent after an hard reboot.

Yes, that'll work OK.   It's a wild implementation though.  Why not
just add

int bdflush_min(void)
{
	return bdf_prm.b_un.interval;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdflush_min);

to fs/buffer.c?

(You forgot to export bdf_prm, btw).

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-07  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-07  0:34 2.4.19pre10aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-06-07  1:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-06-07  2:08   ` 2.4.19pre10aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-06-07 15:10     ` 2.4.19pre10aa1 J.A. Magallon

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