update/bdflush/kflushd

Slava (slava_pestov@geocities.com)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 13:29:20 +1200


Hello everybody,

What's the point of having the userspace update daemon (which accroding
to strace, calls sys_bdflush() every couple of seconds) when kflushd
already does it? Just wondering. I think this functionality can be
integrated into the kernel like it's done in IRIX (I think)

Slava

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