Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:07:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dave Zarzycki <> | Subject | Re: Notebook disk spindown |
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On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 rob@mur.org.uk wrote:
> Would it be possible to detect when the disk spins up, and do the flush then?
Personally speaking, I always thought it would be nice if the kernel flushed dirty buffers right before a disk spins down. It seems silly to me that a disk can spin down with writes pending.
davez
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