> > I'm searching for bdflush maintainer: I've created new version of
> > bdflush (1.6.2) based on bdflush-1.5, which adds sleep
> > support. (Bdflush will decide to spin disks down after some period of
> > inactivity. Very usefull on notebooks.) I would like to propagate this
> > into official tree...
>
> Bdflush is obsolete.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.
[And: I would like to keep sleep support in userspace: I need to
execute hdparm at one point...]
Pavel
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