Re: pmud on pismo ?
> > Normal behavior of a disk that was forced to spin down using hdparm -Y.
> > Pity it didn't remain powered down, there's probably some other processes
> > running that still cause disk I/O.
>
> Like [kupdate], bdflush or whatever?
>
> I've noticed that my disk is periodically accessed (about every few seconds)
> even with apparently no activity and I blamed it on one of the above.
Nope, these only actually write to disk when there's dirty buffers or
metadata.
Michael
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