Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 14:04:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 14:04:44 -0400 Received: from e166066.upc-e.chello.nl ([213.93.166.66]:16915 "EHLO crawl.var.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 14:04:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:04:38 +0200 From: Frank v Waveren To: "Albert D. Cahalan" , Andrew Morton , lkml Subject: Re: [rfc] "laptop mode" Message-ID: <1023300046KSS.fvw@yendor.var.cx> In-Reply-To: <3CFD453A.B6A43522@zip.com.au> <200206050341.g553fvi09850@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20020605170735.GA18036@pimlott.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:07:35PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > > Also write out everything just before stopping the disk. > > Don't let the disk stop if there is any dirty data. > The kernel doesn't currently do spin-down at all, does it? Andrew, People interested in this should also have a look at noflushd (http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/), which does something quite similar. Only problem atm is it doesn't play nice with journalling filesystems.. The bugs only list reiserfs, but I didn't have any luck with it on ext3 either a while back. -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: 0EDB 8787 fvw@[var.cx|stack.nl|dse.nl|chello.nl] ICQ#10074100 09B9 6EF5 6425 B855 Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/fvw@var.cx 7179 3036 E136 B85D - 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/