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SubjectRe: Lazy atime mount option?
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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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