On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:30:14AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Some of our poor filesystem cousins don't write the super until kupdate > kicks them (see ext2_write_super). kupdate has always been the periodic > FS thread of last resort. Yikes, looks like this is indeed the only peridocial sb update for many simpler filesystems. We should really have a separate thread for that instead of hacking it into VM writeback. Especially with the per-bdi one where the current setup doesn't make any sense. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html