On Sunday 13 October 2002 18:30, Dietmar Nusch wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 12 October 2002 19:30, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: > > I've also experimented on this for quite a while and found that only ext2 > > (or other non journalling fs) will allow the disk to spin down with the > > help of noflushd and setting noatime. > > I found no journalling fs which works. If you do please let me know how. > > XFS turned out to allow spin down of HD together with noflushd. However, > for kernel 2.4.18 it requires a kernel patch. The debian xfs kernel patch > packet worked perfectly. > > So I have ext2 on my root partition, everything else on XFS.
Thanks, but XFS turned out to be quite slow on my laptop and as I only have 4GB HD fsck doesn't take too long so i'll stick with ext2. greets benny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
