Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 9 Sep 2000 15:02:11 +0100 | From | rob@mur ... | Subject | Re: Notebook disk spindown |
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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?
Regards
Rob
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