On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 06:53, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > > A new feature will be added for 2.4.20 which will allow to increase > > > this delay at mount time. > > > > The benh kernel is a 2.4.20pre9, is it already in there? > > Yes, use the commit=<seconds> option when mounting.
Great, but how many seconds would make sense on a notebook? I think it must be a real high value, because there is the harddisk powermanagement first and then there should be some time for the disc to sleep. But I don't get why the ext3 driver must do this every n seconds. Doesn't it detect if there was a filesystem access or not? If there was no seek, then it could skip the flush that time. - claas
