Re: 2.4 kernel tweaking

[Matej Cepl <matej@ceplovi.cz>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:25:40PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
> > ext3 will write to the disk every 5 seconds or so. For me,
> > that is what prevents the HD from spinning down. Under ext2
> > the noflushd should work nicely, but ext3 wants to write to
> > its journal every so often...
> 
> I don't understand what has to be written to disk if there is
> no activity. I will try to boot with ext2, but if the guilty is
> ext3, then it would be a significant drawback of ext3. I am
> still convinced that something is not right but if it is the
> way ext3 work (hd activity without other activities) then I wil
> have a look at other journalized fs.

Actually, I struggle with the same problem too, and currently it
seems to me, that parametr noatime in /etc/fstab for every hard
disk should help (see mount(1) for more info). Moreover, the
page http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1511 could help
too.

Cheers,
Matej

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