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Well they are there if they were not deleted by the 2.5 maintainer. If they were, then feel free to copy and credit the work from 2.4 once I complete the infrastructure. Cheers, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > But I *want* to write while the drive is spun down. And leave it spun > > down until the system is RAM starved (or some threshold is reached). > > > > Yes. The desirable behaviour for laptops is to defer writes > for a very long time, or until the user says "sync". > > Mechanisms need to be put in place so that if there are pending > writes and the disk happens to be spun up for a read, we take > advantage of that spinup to push out the pending writes at > the same time. > > This behaviour should be all be enabled by a special "laptop mode" > switch. > > There's nothing particularly hard in all this... I'll do a 2.5 > version at some stage. > > - > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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