Re: Battery Life
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:07:10PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> > My main point is that the journalling filesystem isn't a *huge* strain on
> > power resources (even if you can do even better with just ext2).
>
> Well, it prevents noflushd from powering down your hard drive. I tried
> it. After switching to ext2 i ocassionally hear my drive power down, and
> that certainly will save power.
>
Yes, the power-down is quite amusing with ext3. Sometimes when I'm doing
something that runs in memory, so I don't need the hard drive, I hear the
hard drive power down. Just as I'm thinking "at last, some peace and
quiet", about 15 seconds later it powers up again. I guess that must be the
journal getting written or something.
Drew
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