Re: faster boots?

Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-08T16:48:09Z

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:43:33PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Well, noflushd already seems to work pretty well ;-). But I see kernel
> > support may be required for SCSI.
>
> I've had no luck at all with noflushd on my Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT.
> It would spin down every few minutes, and then spin up _immediately_,
> every time. I have no idea why.

Were you using the console? Any activity on ttys causes device inode
atime/mtime updates which trigger disk spin ups. The easiest way to
work around this is to run X while using devpts for the ptys.

-ben
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