[openbeos] Re: sync daemon?

"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 1/17/07, Bruno G. Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Even with that, still sounds like a hack (although a smaller hack 
> > > than doing that with a useland daemon). :)
> > Seems that the BSD people used to like this hack :)
> > 
> > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200004/answerman.html#q2
> > 
> > Actually, it seems that several file systems on Linux provide a 
> > syncer thread; I believe XFS in particular does that. Given BFS 
> > heritage on
> > XFS' ideas...
> ext3 also has that.
> You have to change the default timeout with a kernel arg to avoid 
> spinning up every 2 minutes on a laptop...

Not to continue this list, but is there any other viable possibility at 
all? I might be short on ideas, but I don't see one :-)
Of course, the HD would only spin up if there actually is something to 
sync.

Bye,
   Axel.

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