Am Sonntag 23 März 2003 17:35 schrieb Jeff: > > I've just setup noflushd and finally can enjoy to hear that > > damn hard drive to spin down after a while it's not in use. > > [...]
> I had the same problem on my noisy older Dell Latitude. I was > informed that using the find command, shown below, will help > narrow down the field: > [...] Additionally, set the noatime option on all mounted filesystems to prevent the kernel from updating the access times of the files. I do not know if noflushd takes care of that. And remember that journaling file systems like ext3 by default commit their journals every five seconds. Making that period longer defeats (some?/most?) benefits of having a journaling FS. chl -- Dipl. Phys. Carsten Lechte Institut fuer Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet, 24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.ieap.uni-kiel.de/plasma/ag-stroth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
