Re: noflushd

[Dirk Haage <dh@a-n-t-s.de>]

On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 13:38, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have a
> journaling filesystem?
> 
> When I had ext2 it was OK. I read in noflushd manual that with reiserfs
> it can't cooperate, now I have ext3, and the hd doesn't stay off for
> more than half of a minute.

I have a ReiserFS partition for /home on my laptop mountet with noatime
(as mentioned on their website) and noflushd. It works good for me, HD
is spinning down and not used even if you write to some files.

/dirk