Re: [vdr] Is there a way to give inode entries a higher cache priority than data in the linux kernel?

Carsten Koch wrote: I have a distributed VDR system in my house with a lot of disks that are NFS mounted by VDR PCs in two rooms. In order to conserve energy, I have used hdparm to set a spin down delay after which the disks turn themselves off. When /video/.update is touched (one of the VDR

Re: [vdr] Is there a way to give inode entries a higher cache priority than data in the linux kernel?

Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: ... 1) Is there a bug in the linux kernel that makes it spin up the disk needlessly even if the data are still in the cache? ... I haven't tried or read it myself, but this: Documentation/laptop-mode.txt might contain the information you need. Correct.

Re: [vdr] Is there a way to give inode entries a higher cache priority than data in the linux kernel?

Quoting Carsten Koch: Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: ... 1) Is there a bug in the linux kernel that makes it spin up the disk needlessly even if the data are still in the cache? ... I haven't tried or read it myself, but this: Documentation/laptop-mode.txt might contain the