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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Sleeping harddrives?
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:49:27 +0400
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Hello!

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 02:34:06AM +0200, Anders Widman wrote:

>    How  would  ReiserFS  react  when  a user/program/anything tries to
>    access a file on a harddrive that is spin down?

Linux IDE/SCSI layer issupposed to spind the drive up.

>    I  remember that I tested this about a year ago, and it didn't work
>    very well. The filesystem timeout was shorter than the time to spin
>    up the drive.

Huh? What filesystem timeout?

Bye,
    Oleg