when does journal flush with data=journal

[tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Tso)]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:59:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The other (complimentary) option is to simply hack mke2fs so that it permits
> larger journals.  In e2fsprogs's misc/util.c:figure_journal_size():

Note though that interactivity may suffer with larger journals; when
it finally *does* come time to flush the journal, the system may
become very non-responsive until the journal is actually completely
flushed.

							- Ted