and of course then ciaranm could say "yay, one big fast write, instead of many little ones, all this saved time!"
but that would be just too positive, even for him

;P


Bret Towe wrote:

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:47:55 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


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.



if you accutally read my email i said WITHOUT using hdparm to spin down the disks hence no delay on having to wake them up



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