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SubjectRe: faster boots?
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.

-ben
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