Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus

[Soeren Sonnenburg <debianppc-ml@nn7.de>]

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> > 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).
> 
> My laptop mode patch is in the 2.4.21-rc-ben tree, you don't have to do
> special tricks to get good spin down times with that.

So it is enough to run noflushd or even set hdparm to a reasonable (say
5min) disk timeout ?

Best,
Soeren.