The 'lastrun' time wasn't being initialised, so it could be half a jiffie-cycle before it seemed to be time to do work again. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/bitmap.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff ./drivers/md/bitmap.c~current~ ./drivers/md/bitmap.c --- ./drivers/md/bitmap.c~current~ 2005-08-22 11:48:18.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/bitmap.c 2005-08-22 11:49:43.000000000 +1000 @@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ success: /* assign fields using values from superblock */ bitmap->chunksize = chunksize; bitmap->daemon_sleep = daemon_sleep; + bitmap->daemon_lastrun = jiffies; bitmap->max_write_behind = write_behind; bitmap->flags |= sb->state; bitmap->events_cleared = le64_to_cpu(sb->events_cleared); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html