Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush()

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
04 Dec 2002 11:12:42 -0500


On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:10, Daniel Kobras wrote:

> > Bdflush the user-space daemon went away a long time ago, ~1995.
>
> sys_bdflush() is still usable in 2.4 to tune kupdated's parameters.
> Only func==1 functionality is long gone.

Right. But the bdflush daemon was gone in 2.4.

> > Besides, you only see the message once for each daemon that is loaded.
> > So regardless of the rate limiting you probably only see it once on
> > boot.
>
> And each time you try to twist the flushing parameters.

There are no flushing parameters in 2.5, and this is a patch for 2.5.

Robert Love

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