20 Jun
2002
20 Jun
'02
14:17
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:14:14 +0200
Cees van de Griend
On Thursday 20 June 2002 14:50, Basil Chupin wrote:
Can anyone suggest why my HD is being accessed every 5 seconds, and how do I stop this?
You really don't want to stop this...
It's the Linux kernel which does this. File changes are not written to disk right away, but cached. Every 5 seconds, these change are written to disk.
See: man sync.
Note: AFAIK the kernel has always done this. Note: This is also one of the reasons why you never must switch off a running Linux system.
I thought the "journal" in the reiserfs would reconstruct everything on reboot if the system was shut off accidently or crashed.