Re: update/bdflush/kflushd

Anders Melchiorsen (postmaster@and.nospam.kampsax.k-net.dk)
13 Sep 1998 13:49:54 +0200


Slava <slava_pestov@geocities.com> writes:

> What's the point of having the userspace update daemon (which accroding
> to strace, calls sys_bdflush() every couple of seconds) when kflushd

This has been discussed a few times. I think the point is merely that
no-one has implemented it in the kernel yet.

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