On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:07:10PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > > My main point is that the journalling filesystem isn't a *huge* strain on > > power resources (even if you can do even better with just ext2). > > Well, it prevents noflushd from powering down your hard drive. I tried > it. After switching to ext2 i ocassionally hear my drive power down, and > that certainly will save power. >
Yes, the power-down is quite amusing with ext3. Sometimes when I'm doing something that runs in memory, so I don't need the hard drive, I hear the hard drive power down. Just as I'm thinking "at last, some peace and quiet", about 15 seconds later it powers up again. I guess that must be the journal getting written or something. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
