From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:28:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:28:43 -0400 Received: from altus.drgw.net ([209.234.73.40]:49930 "EHLO altus.drgw.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:28:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:27:13 -0500 From: Troy Benjegerdes To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Pavel Machek , Rik van Riel , Daniel Phillips , Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: spindown Message-ID: <20010627192713.K8027@altus.drgw.net> In-Reply-To: <20010615152306.B37@toy.ucw.cz> <20010618222131.A26018@paranoidfreak.co.uk> <20010619124627.A202@bug.ucw.cz> <20010621180701.B4523@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010621180701.B4523@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>; from lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:07:01PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:07:01PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Isn't this why noflushd exists or is this an evil thing that shouldn't > > > ever be used and will eventually eat my disks for breakfast? > > > > It would eat your flash for breakfast. You know, flash memories have > > no spinning parts, so there's nothing to spin down. > > Btw Pavel, does noflushd work with 2.4.4? The noflushd version 2.4 I > tried said it couldn't find some kernel process (kflushd? I don't > remember) and that I should use bdflush. The manual says that's > appropriate for older kernels, but not 2.4.4 surely. Yes, noflushd works with 2.4.x. I'm running it on an ibook with debian-unstable. And as a word of warning: while running noflushd, make sure you 'sync' a few times after an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' that upgrades damn near everything before doing something that crashes the kernel. This WILL eat your ext2fs for breakfast. -- Troy Benjegerdes | master of mispeeling | 'da hozer' | hozer@drgw.net -----"If this message isn't misspelled, I didn't write it" -- Me ----- "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shulz