Hi there everyone, I hope you don't mind my deviation from the original thread and my slightly off-topic message (it's more of a hardware question). On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 at 23:37, Russell King wrote: >With all this, I can get my machines (setup the way I have them) to run >for up to 6 hours without spinning up the drives (ie, over night). Oh, >the other thing is that I have set the standby timer on the hard drive >(hdparm -S) to be 10 minutes, which means its not spinning down during >my normal use. I've got a system that I keep running 24x7, although at night it's basically not doing anything. I made hdparm set the hard drive to never spin down (it's an IBM-DJNA-372200). I did this because AFAIK it's better for both performance and the life of the hard drive to just keep it spinning, at the expense of a little electricity. I'd like to verify this, though, and was hoping someone out there could help me out. Thanks. :-) Also, while we're on the issue of atime's and diratime's ... aside from the obvious "to find out when it was last accessed", what normally need the atime/diratime statistics of a particular file/directory? I want to know what I'll be sacrificing for performance by setting noatime and nodiratime for my root, var and home partitions (all on ReiserFS). Thanks, again! :-) -- Federico Sevilla III Network Administrator THE LEATHER COLLECTION, INC. #15 Don Mariano Lim Industrial Complex, Alabang-Zapote Road beside Toyota - Alabang, Las Pinas City 1740 PHILIPPINES Ofc: +63.2.842.2261 Fax: +63.2.842.2204 Apt: +63.2.523.8251 to 64 (loc 601) Cel: +63.919.550.4216 - Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
