From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Alberto Gonzalez <info@gnebu.es>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Laptop's HDD
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:10:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <472EFA1F.8040003@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711040002.25784.info@gnebu.es>
Alberto Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maybe some of you have been hearing lately about a problem with laptop's hard
> disk drives being killed by *insert Linux distro here* [1]
I asked about this on the fedora devel list:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-October/msg02324.html
I don't think the kernel should worry about this.
I don't even think distros should change the default settings of the BIOS/disk.
Up to and including Fedora 7 on my laptop, the disk did a load cycle
on average once every 48 seconds. Mounting the filesystems noatime changed this
to once every 108 seconds, which is a little aggressive still but not too bad.
Note fedora 8 will have the relatime option on by default for all filesystems.
Pádraig.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-03 23:02 Laptop's HDD Alberto Gonzalez
2007-11-05 11:10 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2007-11-09 14:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-11-10 3:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-10 20:25 ` Stephen Clark
2007-11-12 17:09 ` Mark Lord
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