On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yes, this is a bit of a problem - it's probably atime updates,
> things which write to inodes, etc. A commit will be forced within
> five seconds of this happening.
Reading journal.c I guessed that kjournald flushes thing *even if
it doesn't have things to flush*. I guess that from commit_timeout and
the comments on the thread process, but I can be wrong.
YFI, I issue a /bin/sync before I put the disk to sleep.
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