Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian Collier <> | Subject | Re: Lazy atime mount option? | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:45:10 +0100 (BST) |
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On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:15:08 +0200, Pavel Machek said: > It has some strange implications, however: if you edit file on a > machine for ten hours, and your hdd sleeps after first 10 minutes, > bdflush will sense it and not let anything onto disk. Harddisk will be > sleeping for that 10 hours. If power fails, you loose.
If your HDD is sleeping after 10 minutes then you probably have a laptop so when the power fails it will continue running on battery power. :-)
imc
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