Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Sep 2000 13:36:08 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Notebook disk spindown |
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On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 rob@mur.org.uk wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:25:35PM +0200, Tim Brunne wrote: > > Thanks for this patch. But why hasn't it been included into > > the kernel earlier? Wouldn't be a combination of yours and my > > patch be the proper way? As far as I understand you switch > > off automatic buffer flushing completely, but it should be done > > every interval of time the administrator want's it. Why do > > you think that raising the upper limits of the kernel variables > > is not suitable? > > > Would it be possible to detect when the disk spins up, and do the flush then?
Yes if you had a continuious polling of power status wrt standby.
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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