relationship of bdflush/kflushd/update

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I've spent the better part of an afternoon searching and hunting for
information on kflushd, bdflush, and update. I am really confused on what
the status of each of these is in 2.0.30. How do these interact with each
other. From what I understand bdflush has been obeleted because the kernel
now starts kflushd as a kernel thread. What does update do then? How does
it (or does it) interact with kflushd. Should I run update? If so, why?

What, typically does kflushd do?

I am hoping to get this confusion all cleared up.
Thanx,
b.

P.S. Can you CC me directly on any responses to the list? Thanx.

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Brian J. Murrell                                               brian@ilinx.com
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Brian J. Murrell                                               brian@ilinx.com
InterLinx Support Services, Inc.
North Vancouver, B.C.                                             604 983 UNIX
        Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD






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