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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: Howto make reiser-3.6 a bit more standby friendly?
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:37:37 -0500
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To: Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>
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Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am currently tinkering a idn-router which a harddrive which should
> mostly be in stand-by.
> However it seems the drive is rather unimpressed by a 5s timeout
> setting specified with hdparm and goes in standby very seldom although
> the computer is runnig 100% idle (even no isdn-services started or
> anything else).
> 
> Could this be because of some journal-writeback stuff or anything like
> that? Is there a way to tune ReiserFS for more standby-friendliness?

Have you tried "-o noatime"?

Also, Reiser4 is much more standby-friendly.  If you've got the RAM, it
won't touch your disk too much.