Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 19:22, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, May 29 2003, Oliver Ripka wrote:
> > Beside the really annoying "Blink laptop LED on
> > activity", which I turned out after having it first
> > compiled in(I think on can use this access to the LED
>
> What are you talking about, that feature is the coolest thing to ever
> hit Linux :-)
>
> No seriously, I quite like it. I dunno how much noise the older
> powerbooks make, but the one I have is dead silent. So it's impossible
> to know when the disk is churning away without having to put your ear on
> the keyboard. And how clever does that look?
well in a very silent room the harddisk is actually noticable... anyway
I don't know whether linux supports this, but is it actually possible to
have say ext3/xfs or reiserfs with the harddisk going to standby if
there is no heavy disk activity (say I am willing to waste 100MB for a
writing buffer before any disk activity starts).
Soeren.
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