On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:24:48 -0800 Bret Towe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | for those stuck on a journaled filesystem and cant reparition or | change for whatever | reasons look into using laptop-mode without using hdparm to spin down | the disks it will prevent small writes all the time for as long as you | tell it till memory is full and it has to write it to disk or the | timer hits and it does one massive write | instead of many small ones
Yick. Then, when it *does* have to do a writethrough, there's a huge delay whilst it spins up the discs and writes all that nonsense to the drives. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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