On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 05:11:42PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:08:08AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Bartek Kania wrote: > > > A while ago, I looked at the code in one of the filesystems (either ext3 > > > or jfs - the two fs's I use), and I wasn't convinced that the code > > > correctly saved the -o remount,commitinterval value. I convinced myself it > > > only got set at mount time, not at remount time - but I am very likely > > > wrong, given that I am not a kernel hacker, and probably missed some > > > subtlety. > > > > > > I have never had any luck with the laptop mode patches. Dammit. > > > > > > > It should work fine with ext3, reiserfs and xfs with kernel 2.6. With > > 2.4 only ext3 is functional (although it is somewhat faulty). I have > > patches for 2.4 if anyone wants, didn't try to push them through yet > > and I doubt they will be accepted as 2.4 doesn't take too many changes > > other then bug fixes anymore. > > How much work do you reckon it would be to get it to play nice with jfs? > :) >
I don't have time until Aug 1 I'm afraid (two big tests) but I will take a look then. The amount of work mostly depends on the journal flushing mechanism, but its probably not too much work. I'm also in touch with the guy that ported laptop-mode to kernel 2.6 so I will consult him also. > -- > TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ > Just because they are called 'forbidden' transitions does not mean > that they are forbidden. They are less allowed than allowed > transitions, if you see what I mean. > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. >
