Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:59:42PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:03:47AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > If it's because of the disk-spins-up-too-much problem then
> > that can be addressed by allowing the commit interval to be
> > set to larger values.
> 
> The updated commit interval will only affect new transactions, correct?
> In other words, when changing the commit interval from t_old to t_new,
> it will take t_old seconds until we can be certain there are only
> transactions with a t_new expiry interval in the queue?

Yes, unless:
> Or is there a
> way to flush the current queue of transactions, eg. by fsync()ing the
> underlying block device, or by sending a magic signal to kjournald? 

an fsync() on any file or directory on the filesystem will ensure that
all old transactions have completed, and a sync() will ensure that any
old transactions are at least on their way to disk.

Cheers,
 Stephen