> Followup to: <19980825212228.H1299@dot.cygnus.com>
> By author: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 11:32:04AM +0800, David Luyer wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to have some kernel call which is guaranteed to be
> > > executed at least, say, once a week ...
> >
> > sync is generally called every 30 seconds by update.
> >
>
> Not anymore (update/bdflush are obsolete), but I'm sure you could
> program kflushd to invoke something periodically.
>
bdflush yes, but update is not obsolete.
It is still needed if you want to make sure data (and metadata)
eventually gets written to disk.
Of course, you can run without update, but then don't bother if you
lose file in system crash, even if you edited it and saved it few
hours ago. :)
Update is very important if you have lots of RAM in your computer.
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