From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery?
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 05:02:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020703030208.GA474@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D18C5E4.B7423294@zip.com.au>
Hi!
> > ..
> > > If it's because of the disk-spins-up-too-much problem then
> > > that can be addressed by allowing the commit interval to be
> > > set to larger values.
> >
> > Thanks Andrew,
> >
> > Yes, the concern is the syncing every few seconds.
> > Would it be possible and make sense to have this
> > setting get adjusted dynamically when a laptop goes
> > onto battery power?
>
> If the APM/ACPI stuff can report the transition to userspace then yes,
> that's something which their support scripts could do.
ACPI should be able to pass that info.
Please make that patch go to linus, it looks very usefull to me.
Pavel
--
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no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-03 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-24 20:02 Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when a laptop is powered by a battery? Miles Lane
2002-06-24 20:23 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-24 20:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-25 17:03 ` Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop " Andrew Morton
2002-06-25 17:24 ` Miles Lane
2002-06-25 19:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-03 3:02 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-06-26 0:13 ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-06-26 18:39 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-02 13:23 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03 3:04 ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-28 21:59 ` Daniel Kobras
2002-07-02 12:13 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03 3:04 ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-04 20:30 ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-07-04 22:05 ` Daniel Kobras
2002-07-05 7:59 ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-07-06 0:58 ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-23 11:14 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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