Re: [RFC] using writepage to start io

On Tuesday 07 August 2001 16:23, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:29:26PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:

quoted

  Ext3 has its own writeback daemon

Ext3 has a daemon to schedule commits to the journal, but it uses the
normal IO scheduler for unforced writebacks.

Yes.  The currently favored journalling mode uses a writeback journal,
no?  In other words the ext3 journal daemon seems to fit the description
pretty well, especially if you have several of them on one disk.

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Daniel
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