Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:07:35 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: faster boots? |
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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:02:36AM +0300, Itai Nahshon wrote: > A required feature IMHO: there should _never_ be dirty blocks > for disks that are not spinning.
Never make assertions like that: on my laptop, I want *lots* of dirty blocks held in memory while the disk isn't spinning. Keeping RAM powered is much less costly than spinning the disk up.
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