From: NeilBrown The 'lastrun' time wasn't being initialised, so it could be half a jiffie-cycle before it seemed to be time to do work again. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/md/bitmap.c~md-make-sure-bitmap_daemon_work-actually-does-work drivers/md/bitmap.c --- devel/drivers/md/bitmap.c~md-make-sure-bitmap_daemon_work-actually-does-work 2005-08-21 22:35:56.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/md/bitmap.c 2005-08-21 22:35:56.000000000 -0700 @@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ success: /* assign fields using values from superblock */ bitmap->chunksize = chunksize; bitmap->daemon_sleep = daemon_sleep; + bitmap->daemon_lastrun = jiffies; bitmap->max_write_behind = write_behind; bitmap->flags |= sb->state; bitmap->events_cleared = le64_to_cpu(sb->events_cleared); _