Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery?

Pavel Machek
2002-07-03T16:49:46Z

Hi!

> > ..
> > > If it's because of the disk-spins-up-too-much problem then
> > > that can be addressed by allowing the commit interval to be
> > > set to larger values.
> >
> > Thanks Andrew,
> >
> > Yes, the concern is the syncing every few seconds.
> > Would it be possible and make sense to have this
> > setting get adjusted dynamically when a laptop goes
> > onto battery power?
>
> If the APM/ACPI stuff can report the transition to userspace then yes,
> that's something which their support scripts could do.

ACPI should be able to pass that info.

Please make that patch go to linus, it looks very usefull to me.
Pavel
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