> > Would it be hard to implement a thread/task/process that writes
> > back data to disk? I guess this would be the logical consequence.
>
> It's called kflushd, and it already exists.
I thought kflushd would only *trigger* data to be written back to disk.
But I was not sure, so I did a grep over the files in Documentation/
but could not find information about kflushd. (In short, I then had
looks at bdflush.8 and fs/buffer.c to follow the write down to
make_request() calls).
Okay, so you're right, thanks.
ciao,
johnny
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