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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Itai Nahshon <nahshon@actcom.co.il>
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Subject: Re: faster boots?
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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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