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    SubjectRe: faster boots?
    Itai Nahshon wrote:
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    > 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?

    Helge Hafting
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