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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prev 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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