Re: laptop_mode doesn't seem to work: kjournald waking up disks frequently
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:08:08AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Bartek Kania wrote:
> > A while ago, I looked at the code in one of the filesystems (either ext3
> > or jfs - the two fs's I use), and I wasn't convinced that the code
> > correctly saved the -o remount,commitinterval value. I convinced myself it
> > only got set at mount time, not at remount time - but I am very likely
> > wrong, given that I am not a kernel hacker, and probably missed some
> > subtlety.
> >
> > I have never had any luck with the laptop mode patches. Dammit.
> >
>
> It should work fine with ext3, reiserfs and xfs with kernel 2.6. With
> 2.4 only ext3 is functional (although it is somewhat faulty). I have
> patches for 2.4 if anyone wants, didn't try to push them through yet
> and I doubt they will be accepted as 2.4 doesn't take too many changes
> other then bug fixes anymore.
How much work do you reckon it would be to get it to play nice with jfs?
:)
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