> > > Bdflush is obsolete. You should adapt kflushd (the
> > > in-kernel bdflush) instead...
> >
> > Bdflush is not obsolete. Kflushd will only flush buffers to disk if
> > you are very low on memory. You still need something that flushes old
> > buffers to disk.
>
> Hmm, you seem to be right indeed :( Upon reading the
> code I saw, much to my dismay, that bdflush doesn't
> write out dirty buffers all by itself (unless I skipped
> a vital part of code :)...
>
> I guess this means I'll have to recode bdflush then,
> in order to write out the sutff that needs to be
> written out...
Why? It is fine as it is. It has good sense not to run bdflush, and it
hasa good sense to kill it for example. It also has good sense to have
extra functionality in it (sleep), which does not really belong in
kernelland.
Pavel
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