From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261749AbVGZNL4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:11:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261778AbVGZNL4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:11:56 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:37386 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261749AbVGZNLv (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:11:51 -0400 Message-ID: <42E6378E.6050701@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:15:58 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gbakos@cfa.harvard.edu, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: elvtune with 2.6 kernels (under FC3) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gaspar Bakos wrote: > Hi, > > I am cc-ing this to the kernel list, a i have the suspicion that it may > be a kernel related feature. > > -------------- > I noticed that elvtune does not work on FC3 with a 2.6.12.3 > (self-compiled, pristine) kernel. I also tried it with other 2.6.* kernels. > > elvtune /dev/sde > ioctl get: Invalid argument > > In fact, I get the same message for all disks, either those on a 3ware > controller, or SATA disks directly attached to the motherboard. > The hw is a dual opteron mb with 4Gb RAM. > > Did this command become obsoleted? > Is there alternativ? Not that I ever found. You can play with values in /sys/block/{device}/queue or wherever you have your sysfs mounted. Not a great user interface, but at least you can play. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me