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From: David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>
To: Tony.Lill@ajlc.waterloo.on.ca
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: laptops and journalling filesystems
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 02:27:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B664FE2.9090702@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107310254.WAA22236@spider.ajlc.waterloo.on.ca>

My laptop works quite well with reiserfs, maybe you have some program 
that is doing the diddling?  Once my disk goes to sleep, it stays asleep 
until I do something that isn't in the cache or needs to be written out 
of the cache.

David

Tony Lill wrote:

>Do any of the current batch of journalling filesystems NOT diddle the
>disk every 5 seconds? I've tried reiser and ext3 and they're both
>antithetic to spinning down the disk. Any plans to fix this bug in
>future kernels?
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-31  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-31  2:54 laptops and journalling filesystems Tony Lill
2001-07-31  3:30 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-31  3:52   ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-31  6:13     ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-31  5:28 ` Justin Guyett
2001-07-31 15:51   ` dean gaudet
2001-07-31  6:27 ` David Ford [this message]

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