In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pavel Machek recently extended the bdflush package to efficiently handle >hard disk spindown for power saving mode. I played with the changes, and it >seems to work really well.
Some time ago, I made a package called "virtual-dev", which was supposed to help keep the hard disk spun down. (It works by putting /dev on a ramdisk.) More recent kernels, however, seem to be pretty good at avoiding accessing the disk without any outside help, so "virtual-dev" seems to be redundant already -- with things like the enhanced bdflush Avery mentions, I would expect it to become even more so. So I'd like to ask: does anyone actually use virtual-dev? If not, I'll ask that it be removed from the archive. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: <URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2
