> Mobile-update won't work on kernels 2.2.11 and above, as the > sys_bdflush call will make it do_exit(0) on first call. And > noflushd _requires_ 2.2.11 or above, so noflushd and mobile-update > will be mutually exclusive. > > Also, I didn't set the noatime option for mount and this all still > seemed fine. This sounds really strange to me... I am using k2.2.15 and run mobile-update on startup, and for sure WindowMaker tries to access its configuration files every three seconds or so. (Also true that I didn't check whether mobile-update is behaving as it should)
The sure thing is, my hard disk *does* spins down and stays quiet, even if it may be such that I do not have any special 'update' daemon in place. I bet that the "noatime" was enough for me then, but I'll have a look at noflushd if it can really do better than what I already got. Thanks for the info. raph
