Re: logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/28/2009 11:14 AM, green wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-28, 059, Bob Cox wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:21:16 +0000, Bob Cox (debian-user@lists.bobcox.com) wrote: 
> > > You may need noflushd (no flush daemon) to do
> > > what you want.  
> > >
> > > aptitude show noflushd
> > Which is for IDE drives and you are using SATA.  Ignore that suggestion
> > then!
>
> I did notice that and so discounted it immediately, but why would ext3 need to 
> do a write to journal every 5 seconds anyway when _nothing_ is being written to 
> the filesystem?  In that case a write only makes sense when the filesystem is 
> unmounted.
>
> If something is in fact writing to the filesystem, then I need to find out 
> what.

Having members of a RAID set go to sleep independently of control by 
md seems kinda scary.

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