Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265155AbUAYSdY (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:33:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265172AbUAYSdY (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:33:24 -0500 Received: from moraine.clusterfs.com ([66.246.132.190]:52403 "EHLO moraine.clusterfs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265155AbUAYSdX (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:33:23 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:33:21 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger To: Lutz Vieweg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is there a way to keep the 2.6 kjournald from writing to idle disks? (to allow spin-downs) Message-ID: <20040125183321.GE1092@schnapps.adilger.int> Mail-Followup-To: Lutz Vieweg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <40140B0A.90707@isg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40140B0A.90707@isg.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 674 Lines: 18 On Jan 25, 2004 19:29 +0100, Lutz Vieweg wrote: > Alas, since an upgrade to kernel 2.6 and ext3 filesystem, I cannot find a > way to let the harddisk spin down - I found out that "kjournald" writes a > few blocks every few seconds. Loop for laptop-mode patches, which should allow you to do this. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/