>Every few seconds something accesses my harddrive, therefore a suspend >(hdparm -S1 /dev/hda) is impossible. I have a notebook, so I >would really >like to spin down the drive for less heat, noise and a longer >battery life. > >I suspect the filesystem reiserfs to do these annoying >accesses. It is a >journaling filessystem and I guess that ext3 would do that >also. Somewhere >I found a tip to mount with noatime, but that didn't help. > >So what are my options? I read about noflushd which reduces >drive access to >a minimum, but only works with ext2. I would prefer to keep >the journaling >file system. Anyone solved that problem? Will reiser4 be better in that >view?
I seem to recall that this will happen with fam-oss if you haven't enabled inode monitoring in the kernel. Is this possible? -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
