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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:38:59 +0100
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Marcos Dione <mdione@hal.famaf.unc.edu.ar>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kjournald and disk sleeping
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Hi,

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:28:46AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Yes, this is a bit of a problem - it's probably atime updates,

You can mount a filesystem with the "noatime" option, though.  That's
useful on laptops to stop read accesses from spinning up the disk.

Cheers,
 Stephen
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