On Thu, May 29 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 19:22, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Thu, May 29 2003, Oliver Ripka wrote: > > > Beside the really annoying "Blink laptop LED on > > > activity", which I turned out after having it first > > > compiled in(I think on can use this access to the LED > > > > What are you talking about, that feature is the coolest thing to ever > > hit Linux :-) > > > > No seriously, I quite like it. I dunno how much noise the older > > powerbooks make, but the one I have is dead silent. So it's impossible > > to know when the disk is churning away without having to put your ear on > > the keyboard. And how clever does that look? > > well in a very silent room the harddisk is actually noticable... anyway
Sure, if it's really quiet it can be heard. > I don't know whether linux supports this, but is it actually possible to > have say ext3/xfs or reiserfs with the harddisk going to standby if > there is no heavy disk activity (say I am willing to waste 100MB for a > writing buffer before any disk activity starts). My laptop mode patch is in the 2.4.21-rc-ben tree, you don't have to do special tricks to get good spin down times with that. -- Jens Axboe
