Re: [rfc] "laptop mode"

Frank v Waveren (fvw@var.cx)
Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:04:38 +0200

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:07:35PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > Also write out everything just before stopping the disk.
> > Don't let the disk stop if there is any dirty data.
> The kernel doesn't currently do spin-down at all, does it? Andrew,

People interested in this should also have a look at noflushd
(http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/), which does something quite
similar. Only problem atm is it doesn't play nice with journalling
filesystems.. The bugs only list reiserfs, but I didn't have any luck with
it on ext3 either a while back.

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