ReiserFS on Linux was somewhat unusual in that it had a 5 second timer used to flush all of the dirty VFS blocks to disk. If I recall correctly, EXT2 (the previous popular filesystem) just flushed everything as soon as possible.
The first time I installed a box with ReiserFS, I recall being alarmed by my box "ticking" every 5 seconds.
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ReiserFS on Linux was somewhat unusual in that it had a 5 second timer used to flush all of the dirty VFS blocks to disk. If I recall correctly, EXT2 (the previous popular filesystem) just flushed everything as soon as possible.
The first time I installed a box with ReiserFS, I recall being alarmed by my box "ticking" every 5 seconds.