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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery?
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 05:02:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020703030208.GA474@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D18C5E4.B7423294@zip.com.au>

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
-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-03 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-24 20:02 Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when a laptop is powered by a battery? Miles Lane
2002-06-24 20:23 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-24 20:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-25 17:03 ` Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop " Andrew Morton
2002-06-25 17:24   ` Miles Lane
2002-06-25 19:35     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-03  3:02       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-06-26  0:13   ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-06-26 18:39     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-02 13:23       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03  3:04         ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-28 21:59   ` Daniel Kobras
2002-07-02 12:13     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03  3:04       ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-04 20:30         ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-07-04 22:05       ` Daniel Kobras
2002-07-05  7:59         ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-07-06  0:58           ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-23 11:14             ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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