Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:32:06 +0200 (CEST) | From | Daniel Kobras <> | Subject | Re: Notebook disk spindown |
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Dave Zarzycki wrote: > > 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. > > Absolutely. That allows more time spun down too.
Pavel Machek sent me a patch for noflushd to do exactly this. Need not be a kernel issue either.
Regards,
Daniel.
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