On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 00:47 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh 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.
"without using hdparm to spin down the disks" -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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