Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 1999 04:00:23 +0200 | Subject | Re: PATCH: rewritten bdflush | From | Marc Lehmann <> |
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On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 12:13:30PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > There is one notable side effect: you don't have to run the user space > update anymore, bdflush wakes up every so often all by itself. I
How about notebook users who have configured update to stop writing out buffers and spin down disks after some idle time?
Does you patch implement something similar or do we need to spin up drives every 5 seconds? ;)
This is a real concern for me, as I want to get some sleep during the nights (and I can't sleep with harddisks running ;)
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