Re: faster boots?

Helge Hafting
2002-04-08T08:04:53Z

Itai Nahshon wrote:
>
> On Sunday 07 April 2002 17:42 pm, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > I'm curios, how much work can you accomplish on your laptop
> > > without any disk access (but you still need to save files - keeping
> > > them in buffers until it's time to actually write them).
> >
> > Debugging session (emacs/gcc/gdb) for half an hour with disks stopped is
> > easy to accomplish.
> > Pavel
>
> My suggestion was: there should _never_ be dirty blocks for disks that
> are not spinning.

Why not? Are you afraid that the spun-down disk won't
start the next time it is needed?

Helge Hafting