From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:36:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:36:27 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:10764 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:36:26 -0400 Message-ID: <3D18C5E4.B7423294@zip.com.au> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:35:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre8 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miles Lane CC: LKML Subject: Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery? References: <3D18A273.284F8EDD@zip.com.au> <1025025852.1519.54.camel@turbulence.megapathdsl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miles Lane wrote: > > .. > > 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. -