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SubjectRe: Spinning down drives
DateFri, 04 Jul 1997 12:54:14 -0400
From"Willem Riede <>" <>
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU>  wrote:
> I tried mounting filesystems with -o noatime and that didn't help. I
> then ran update (bdflush) with -f 300 to set the timeout to 5
> minutes. That worked. It still seems odd that bdflush (1, NULL) will
> write to the disc if *no process has written to the disc since the
> last call to bdflush*. Doesn't the kernel properly tag all buffers as
> clean once bdflush is done?
> 
If I'm not mistaken, it is standard Unix behaviour to write the time to the superblock of the disk - could that be it?

Regards, Willem Riede.


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