On Mon 16 June 2003 11:15, Gopu Bhaskar wrote: > Why is bwrite not implemented in Linux? Write operations on some block are performed by a defered flushing to disk. Whenever a buffer_head becomes dirty, it will be flushed by these kernel thread: kupdate or bdflush. The former is used as an ageing mechanism for dirty buffers, the later flush dirty buffer_head when there are too many dirty buffers, or when more buffers are needed and available memory is scarce. hope this helps. Daniele. PGP PKEY http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=belch76@libero.it&op=index ICQ# 104896040 Netphone/Fax 178.605.7063 Homepage http://web.tiscali.it/bellucda -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
