Re: Debian and APM
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:02:54PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Could it be, that if i use ext3 i can't use HDD power save modes? Its because
> the committing of ext3. It commits every 5 seconds to the disk. So every 5
> second the HDD is accessed and so there is never a longer idle state...
> comments?
I'm told that this is only if there are pending writes to the disk, and
my laptop is capable of spinning down its disks for longer than that now
despite using ext3. You do have to experiment quite a bit to make sure
there's nothing that writes to your disk frequently, though. Using the
'noatime' mount option may help.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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