Nathan E Norman wrote: > > I don't think this is going to work, since Linux caches the superblock > as well as other filesystem info. There's a daemon called bdflush, > which I believe has been incorporated into the kernel ... its job is to > flush dirty disk buffers. Since Linux multitasks, I imagine something > is being read from or written to the disk at pretty regular intervals > ..
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Only **dirty** buffers need to be written to disk by bdflush. I nothing is writing to disk, (and nothing is reading blocks from disk that are not cached) then no physical disk access needs to be made. > I've never heard of this bearing problem, so I have no idea if it > exists. However, I can tell you that we have several machines that are > running 24/7 with no problems whatsoever ... some of the network servers > have been up for years. And yet, it could exist. I for one would like to hear more about this unsubstantiated rumor. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
