On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:22:45PM +0100, Nyk Tarr wrote: > > In my opinion this is not a solution. First I am still not convinced > > that it is normal for ext3 to touch the disk when there is no other > > activity on the system. Then spinning the disk for 5 minutes seems very > > bad from the powersaving point of view and also from the life of the HD. > > Hard drives sustain most of their wear and use most power on spinning up, > it makes sense for most systems (ie desktops/servers etc) to keep the disks > spinning all the time. In the majority of cases, then, it isn't a case > of 'spinning up' the disks at all. This is not the case on laptops, but > we are a minority case. Optimising the commit intervals has been > suggested on lkml, but is, apparently rather tricky.
The commit of what? I don't see why there would be a need to commit something on an idle system. A commit every 5 secondes when the system (and the HD) is used is not a problem. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. --Anonymous -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
