Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759283AbZCXSV2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:21:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757389AbZCXSUR (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:20:17 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:33636 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757144AbZCXSUP (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:20:15 -0400 Message-ID: <49C9245C.9040400@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:20:12 -0400 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090318) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Theodore Tso , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Nick Piggin , Jens Axboe , David Rees , Jesper Krogh , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 References: <49C87B87.4020108@krogh.cc> <72dbd3150903232346g5af126d7sb5ad4949a7b5041f@mail.gmail.com> <20090324091545.758d00f5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090324093245.GA22483@elte.hu> <20090324101011.6555a0b9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090324103111.GA26691@elte.hu> <20090324132032.GK5814@mit.edu> <20090324133011.GB21720@elte.hu> <20090324135112.GM5814@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090324135112.GM5814@mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 624 Lines: 16 Theodore Tso wrote: > So the question is how quickly can you *dirty* 1.6GB of memory? .. MythTV: rm /some/really/huge/video/file ; sync ## disk light stays on for several minutes.. Note quite the same thing, I suppose, but it does break the shutdown scripts of every major Linux distribution. Simple solution for MythTV is what people already do: use xfs instead. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/