Regards,
peloy.-
Bill Hawes <whawes@transmeta.com> wrote:
> peloy@ven.ra.rockwell.com wrote:
>
>> I wonder why doing a "find /some_dir" causes the kernel to mark buffers
>> as dirty so the next scheduled flush writes these buffers out to disk.
>>
>> I haven't taken any look at the code but I see how the dcache saves
>> accesses to disk when doing the find, but I can also see how the disk
>> is accessed about 2 seconds after find finishes, or when sync is run.
>
> The find command updates the directory access times, so the associated
> buffers get flushed to disk at the next interval.
>
> This is normal behavior, but there's a NODIRATIME option if you don't want
> the access times to be updated.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
>
>
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