From: Christian Iversen <chrivers@iversen-net.dk>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Howto make reiser-3.6 a bit more standby friendly?
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:38:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508231838.37372.chrivers@iversen-net.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <194f625505082308514acb124f@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 17:51, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> > So, the simplest way is to do "-a noatime", unless you really need the
> > atime updates. It'll boost your performance, too...
>
> Wow! To be honest I was a bit skeptic wether would work but like magic
> ... the drive goes into standby and wakes only up if something really
> needs disk access or the kernel is swapping.
> Really great - think this will really do wonders to hd lifetime :-)
Are you sure? Common "knowledge" (empiric and anecdotal evidence) says that a
spin-up/spin-down cycle costs significantly more "lifetime" than running the
drive for the same amount of time. You really have to have extremely few
spin-ups for this to have any positive effect, IMHO.
--
Regards,
Christian Iversen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-23 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-23 12:39 Howto make reiser-3.6 a bit more standby friendly? Clemens Eisserer
2005-08-23 13:37 ` David Masover
2005-08-23 13:58 ` Clemens Eisserer
2005-08-23 14:25 ` David Masover
2005-08-23 15:51 ` Clemens Eisserer
2005-08-23 16:10 ` David Masover
2005-08-23 16:38 ` Christian Iversen [this message]
2005-08-23 19:10 ` Clemens Eisserer
2005-08-23 14:21 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-08-23 22:16 ` Pierre Etchemaïté
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