Re: 2-4-21-rc3-benh0 - hfsplus
On Thu, May 29 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> [...]
> > > 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 ?
You shouldn't run noflushd, it's a bit more clever than that.. I could
tell you all about it, but you can read for yourself in
Documentation/laptop-mode.txt
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Jens Axboe
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