Re: [Syllable-kernel] AFS corruption with SMP disabled..

[Arno K. <arn...@ya...>]

Jake Hamby schrieb:

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> One scary thing I've noticed is that after there has been heavy disk 
> activity, "sync" will often spend several seconds writing out data 
> even if the system has been idle for a long time since the last disk 
> access.  In other words, there doesn't seem to be any "buffer flush" 
> thread writing out dirty buffers to the disk on a regular basis.  This 
> could definitely be making AFS corruption issues more severe than they 
> otherwise might be.
>
There is a flush thread in bcache.c but it uses quite long snooze times.

Arno