Hi!
> > On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 rob@mur.org.uk wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to detect when the disk spins up, and do the flush then?
> > Yes if you had a continuious polling of power status wrt standby.
>
> I think the following flushing policy would work almost as well, while
> remaining generic:
>
> - if there's a read that is not handled from the buffer cache, flush
> (write) all dirty buffers
> - if we need to flush (write) one dirty buffers, flush all others too
>
> This wouldn't catch cases like an explicit spin-up without data I/O,
> but I don't think this is much of a problem in real life.
noflushd works for me. It monitors "read/write" counters in
/proc/stat, and if it detects activity, it syncs(). If it detect idle
period, it syncs() then spins disk down.
Pavel
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