Re: XFS: how to NOT null files on fsck?

[Nathan Scott]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:16:02AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> L A Walsh wrote:
> >Now I know it takes a while before data may end up on disk and that it
> >may not go out to disk in an ordered fashion, but 2-3 days?  
> 
> Seems strange to me, but the amount of delay is entirely up to the 
> filesystem.

The flushing of dirty file data is actually performed by
kernel threads outside of the individual filesystems.

I cannot explain a 2/3 day wait for data to get flushed,
something really strange going on for you there.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan
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