Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?
On 17 Jan 2006 01:15:05 -0800
"David A." <achoice@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."
>
There is a workaround, laptop mode, you can delay writes by as much as you want
(10 minutes is the value usually used, but you can used more)
> regards, David.
>
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