On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:30:07PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Lors de la soir?e naissante du samedi 12 octobre 2002, vers 18:03, > christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > Is it a known issue with ext3 on powerpc ? > > This issue is not powerpc specific, it is related to every journaled > filesystems : regularly, the journal is flushed and a mark is issued > to say that the journal is clean from this point. For ext3, this is > done every five seconds.
I have not noticed that with my x86 laptop but it's perhaps because the HD in my powerpc laptop is louder. That said I don't understand why there would be somthing to flush when there is no activity on the system. > A new feature will be added for 2.4.20 which will allow to increase > this delay at mount time. The benh kernel is a 2.4.20pre9, is it already in there? > Therefore, it will be possible to use ext3 with noflushd. It is not possible > for the moment. Wht is the realtion between being able to increase the timeout and being able to use noflushd? > You may find more information on this issue on the site of noflushd. This one ? http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ Christophe > -- > BOFH excuse #282: High altitude condensation from U.S.A.F prototype > aircraft has contaminated the primary subnet mask. Turn off your > computer for 9 days to avoid damaging it. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. --English proverb
