Re: Kflushd not flushing?

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:57:44 -0400 (EDT)


On 18 Oct 1998, Nicolai Langfeldt wrote:

> The bdflush program also served as update(8). kflushd does not seem
> to do this. Is it supposed to? Do we need update again?

Yes you do. I deleted update when I thought it wasn't needed anymore
thanks to kflushd, but after some mysterious crashes and repeated fscks,
someone told me to put this back into the system, and now I hardly ever
have to fsck again.

Cheers,
Alex

--
 /\_/\  Legalise cannabis now! 
( o.o ) Grow some cannabis today!
 > ^ <  Peace, Love, Unity and Respect to all.

http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk - *new* - rewritten for text browser users!

Linux tahallah 2.1.125 #49 SMP Fri Oct 9 07:18:02 EDT 1998 Two Intel Pentium Pro processors, 331.78 total bogomips, 32M RAM System library 2.0.98

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/