I wonder why doing a "find /some_dir" causes the kernel to mark buffers
as dirty so the next scheduled flush writes these buffers out to disk.
I haven't taken any look at the code but I see how the dcache saves
accesses to disk when doing the find, but I can also see how the disk
is accessed about 2 seconds after find finishes, or when sync is run.
This is with kernel 2.1.115 and there's nothing bad, it is just that I
am curious why this behavior...
peloy.-
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