Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Apr 2002 10:03:25 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: faster boots? |
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Itai Nahshon wrote: > > On Sunday 07 April 2002 17:42 pm, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > I'm curios, how much work can you accomplish on your laptop > > > without any disk access (but you still need to save files - keeping > > > them in buffers until it's time to actually write them). > > > > Debugging session (emacs/gcc/gdb) for half an hour with disks stopped is > > easy to accomplish. > > Pavel > > My suggestion was: there should _never_ be dirty blocks for disks that > are not spinning.
Why not? Are you afraid that the spun-down disk won't start the next time it is needed?
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