On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:39 +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi there, > > I am currently tinkering a idn-router which a harddrive which should > mostly be in stand-by. > However it seems the drive is rather unimpressed by a 5s timeout > setting specified with hdparm and goes in standby very seldom although > the computer is runnig 100% idle (even no isdn-services started or > anything else). > > Could this be because of some journal-writeback stuff or anything like > that? Is there a way to tune ReiserFS for more standby-friendliness? Check out a script called laptop-mode. It adjusts various parameters including /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode. I use Reiser 3 on my laptop and laptop_mode seems to work pretty well. -- Jonathan Briggs eSoft, Inc.