On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:29:18PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> This is on ext3. I wonder if journalling is causing a problem. Pavel,
> are you running ext3?
ext3 ignored kflushd and writes directly to the hard-disk every 30 s.
Reading the ext2-devel mailing list at
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ext2-devel, the problem is
known and being worked on. Until then, don't use journalling on disk,
you want to spin down.
BYtE
Philipp
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