Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking

[Benjamin Fritzsche <BFritzsche@gmx.de>]

On Sunday 13 October 2002 18:30, Dietmar Nusch wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, but XFS turned out to be quite slow on my laptop and as I only have 
4GB HD fsck doesn't take too long so i'll stick with ext2.

greets benny