RE: Assistance in understanding this...?

> Hi Tracy- > > There was a recent thread about ext2fs-- it was > something like doing a format of a large ext2 fs > could cause the VM to run out of memory. > The solution is to do a sync() calls every 10 (pick > a number) writes so that they get flushed to disk > and that memory can be

RE: Assistance in understanding this...?

Hi Tracy- There was a recent thread about ext2fs-- it was something like doing a format of a large ext2 fs could cause the VM to run out of memory. The solution is to do a sync() calls every 10 (pick a number) writes so that they get flushed to disk and that memory can be reused. So

Assistance in understanding this...?

I'm developing a driver that performs some 'formatting' of sorts on a scsi block device as part of the initialization process. This involves writting a long series of non-contiguous blocks to a disk device - something akin to: for(i =0; i < NUM_BLOCKS; i++) { bh = getblk(i *

Assistance in understanding this...?

I'm developing a driver that performs some 'formatting' of sorts on a scsi block device as part of the initialization process. This involves writting a long series of non-contiguous blocks to a disk device - something akin to: for(i =0; i NUM_BLOCKS; i++) { bh = getblk(i *