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After the syscall is made successfully the data should make it to disk eventually baring any other storage subsystem errors. I believe this page provides the d
by Rapzid 12y ago
After the syscall is made successfully the data should make it to disk eventually baring any other storage subsystem errors.
I believe this page provides the details necessary to understand/control about when that happens: http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm
- r4um 12y agopdflush got replaced with per-BDI writeback since 2.6.32 http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32#head-72c3f91947738f1ea52f9ed21a89876730418a61 http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32#head-72c3f91947738f1ea...
- Rapzid 12y agoSo it has. From what I can find though it appears the tunables and behaviour around the tunables is pretty much the same between flush and pdflush.