> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >
> > What you want is to run as fast as usual, with all the nice
> > elevator and write back rules, but with writes to the disk
> > sustained until there aren't any further dirty blocks.
> >
> > This strikes me as perfectly reasonable behaviour for all
> > removable media and I can see no reason why anyone argues
> > against it. It's not like there's a performance cost to
> > simply writing your dirty data when the medium's request
> > queue empties.
Is there agreement that this is reasonable?
Who would be the best person to implement this?
Jamie, since you seem to have some notion of the
mechanisms that might be used, would you be
willing to make the case for this new functionality
to whomever the possible implementer might be?
Thanks,
Miles
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