I think we might want to change the kernel's behaviour
to include the following things:
- don't flush if:
- there are less than X dirty buffers &&
- we haven't recently read from the disk
- flush if:
- there are more than X dirty buffers ||
- we issued a read from the disk more than
Y and less than Z seconds ago ||
- the dirty buffer is FAR too old
(say, an hour or so)
cheers,
Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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