If I am not mistaken, that number can be changed in linux/fs/jbd/journal.c also, Stephen Tweedie has a patch which allows you to specify the journal update time as a parameter to the mount command plus, you can tweak bdflush (see man proc for details, and linux/fs/buffer.c) to tune the timing of the buffer flushes. --- Kurt Fitzner <kfitzner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rahul Kalaskar wrote: > > I would like to know how often a writes happen on > ext3 fs. Is there any > > way to find this out? > > Data is flushed to the journal every 5 seconds, as > opposed to ext2 where > it is flushed every 30. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
