Re: faster boots?

Andre Hedrick
2002-04-08T04:19:20Z

Well they are there if they were not deleted by the 2.5 maintainer.
If they were, then feel free to copy and credit the work from 2.4 once I
complete the infrastructure.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > But I *want* to write while the drive is spun down. And leave it spun
> > down until the system is RAM starved (or some threshold is reached).
> >
>
> Yes. The desirable behaviour for laptops is to defer writes
> for a very long time, or until the user says "sync".
>
> Mechanisms need to be put in place so that if there are pending
> writes and the disk happens to be spun up for a read, we take
> advantage of that spinup to push out the pending writes at
> the same time.
>
> This behaviour should be all be enabled by a special "laptop mode"
> switch.
>
> There's nothing particularly hard in all this... I'll do a 2.5
> version at some stage.
>
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