Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:44:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:44:29 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:40197 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:44:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:41:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Davidsen To: Helge Hafting cc: nahshon@actcom.co.il, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: faster boots? In-Reply-To: <3CB14ECD.43E97BD8@aitel.hist.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Helge Hafting wrote: > Why not? Are you afraid that the spun-down disk won't > start the next time it is needed? More to the point, afraid the hardware and o/s aren't perfectly reliable, the battery life isn't infinite in any mode, etc, etc. There are many activities which have a large people time to bytes written ratio, and I can appraciate that for many things you want a write every N minutes if there is even one dirty buffer, where N is the increment of person time you are willing to risk having to recreate. The tone of your posting implies that the risk of failure is low and it is paranoid to worry that the disk will not spin. Obviously the previous poster values think time highly, and I don't believe that concern should be devalued, even by implication. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/