Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:19:50 +0200 () | From | Hugo Van den Berg <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.31-pre9: "noise after df" |
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On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Ulrich Windl wrote:
-> (If I'm the only one to debug with ears, please excuse) -> I think that "df" makes more noise on my harddisk than previous (i.e. -> 2.0.30) kernels. -> -> Can it be that some metadata is never written back to disk unless a -> "df" (or manual sync()) is done? My ears suggest that more data is -> written back now... -> -> Maybe someone can check it. And you can send me the CD "The sounds of -> the most popular harddisks"... ;-)
My harddisk is so silent, I would'nt know (Fireball 3.2 ST Ultra IDE). Exept on spinup and spindown when it sounds like a jet engine ;-)
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