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From: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
To: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to keep the 2.6 kjournald from writing to idle disks? (to allow spin-downs)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:51:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <401901B5.5080306@samwel.tk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040128230609.GE3975@luna.mooo.com>

Micha Feigin wrote:
>>My curiosity isn't completely gone, though, so maybe one day I'll try to
>>find out who-is-trying-to-read-what, "find -atime ..." didn't reveal the 
>>secret
>>yet.
> 
> It might help you find the culprit. There is a laptopmode patch
> for 2.6. If you echo a number n larger then 1 into
> /proc/sys/vm/laptopmode it will dump the first n disk accesses to the
> console (The docs that come with the patch have the complete
> description).

This was true in the first version (for /proc/sys/vm/block_dump, not 
laptop_mode), however, this approach was then shot down in favor of a 
simple on/off flag.

--Bart

      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-29 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-25 18:29 Is there a way to keep the 2.6 kjournald from writing to idle disks? (to allow spin-downs) Lutz Vieweg
2004-01-25 18:33 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-01-25 18:56 ` Matthias Andree
2004-01-25 19:26 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-01-26 10:16   ` Lutz Vieweg
2004-01-26 10:43     ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-26 10:43     ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-25 20:52 ` Micha Feigin
2004-01-27  0:21   ` bill davidsen
2004-01-27 15:16     ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-27 18:44       ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-27 18:54         ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-28 13:30           ` Lutz Vieweg
2004-01-28 23:06             ` Micha Feigin
2004-01-29 12:51               ` Bart Samwel [this message]

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