Re: Need help tracing regular write activity in 5 s interval

From: Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 07:04:34 EST

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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