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Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking



Hi,

On Saturday 12 October 2002 19:30, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote:

> I've also experimented on this for quite a while and found that only ext2
> (or other non journalling fs) will allow the disk to spin down with the
> help of noflushd and setting noatime.
> I found no journalling fs which works. If you do please let me know how.

XFS turned out to allow spin down of HD together with noflushd. However, for 
kernel 2.4.18 it requires a kernel patch. The debian xfs kernel patch packet 
worked perfectly.

So I have ext2 on my root partition, everything else on XFS.

Regards,
	Dietmar




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