Dave Johnson wrote: > Dave Johnson writes: >> Bart Samwel writes: >>> This looks like it's a generic property of syncing an ext3 file system. >>> Try turning off laptop_mode and then running "sync". You will probably >>> see the same behaviour. >> yep, every sync() causes a gratuitous write to disk N seconds later >> even when no data has been read or written since the last sync(). > > Woops, correction, every sync() call causes a single gratuitous write, > no delay. > > $ for n in 1 2 3 4 5; do sync; done > > Jan 1 14:32:54 gw kernel: kjournald(760): WRITE block 2682 on hda1 > Jan 1 14:32:54 gw kernel: kjournald(760): WRITE block 2684 on hda1 > Jan 1 14:32:54 gw kernel: kjournald(760): WRITE block 2686 on hda1 > Jan 1 14:32:54 gw kernel: kjournald(760): WRITE block 2688 on hda1 > Jan 1 14:32:54 gw kernel: kjournald(760): WRITE block 2690 on hda1 > This may be http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12224 -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
