Re: Delaying writes to disk when there's no need

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> In all kernels I've tested writes to disk are delayed a long time even when
> there's no need to do so.
> 
> A very simple test shows this: on an otherwise idle system, create a tar of
> a NFS-mounted filesystem to a local disk. The kernel starts writing out the
> data after 30 seconds, while a slow and steady stream would be much nicer
> to the system, I think.
> 

Well, doing writeback sooner when disks
are idle might be good idea; detecting
if disk is idle might not be too easy, through.

OTOH, raid resync already has some
such detection?
				Pavel
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