Re: warning: process 'update' used the obsolete bdflush...

[Stewart Smith]

On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 07:04  PM, Paul Rolland wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When switching from 2.4.20 to 2.5.x (x being recent), I have this
> message...
>
> What does this mean ?
> 1 - I have no process named update running,
> 2 - I can't find anything name update in /etc/rc.d/* recursively.

from fs/buffer.c:
/*
  * There are no bdflush tunables left.  But distributions are
  * still running obsolete flush daemons, so we terminate them here.
  *
  * Use of bdflush() is deprecated and will be removed in a future 
kernel.
  * The `pdflush' kernel threads fully replace bdflush daemons and this 
call.
  */

I'd upgrade whatever package update comes from. I can't seem to find 
that binary around on some of my systems, what distribution and version 
are you running? Maybe it's time to upgrade.

Someone else might know specifics :)
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