Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

["David A." <achoice@gmail.com>]

I realy want a quiet PC in my bedroom. My experience is that journaling
file systems generate mor disc activity than ext2 for example.

I run ext2 and noflushd and it works rather OK. Logfiles spin it up say
once every hour. I believe demand for "quiet pc's" is raising, and
minimising disc activity is one factor.

>From http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ "Journaling filesystems like
ext3, reiserfs or xfs bypass the kernel's delayed write mechanisms.
This amounts to lousy spindown times when working off such a partition.
There's no workaround for this."

regards, David.