On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:46:24AM -0500, Derek Broughton wrote: > On November 21, 2001 07:38 am, Nagy Gabor wrote: > > Is there any way to have noflushd (ie. the hd stopping) when I have > > a journaling filesystem? > > > > When I had ext2 it was OK. I read in noflushd manual that with > > reiserfs it can't cooperate, now I have ext3, and the hd doesn't > > stay off for more than half of a minute. > > I shouldn't think so. It's going to be exactly the same as using > reiserfs. You have to pay some price for the added safety of a > journaling filesystem.
Only if you write files, right? What if you're just typing in a buffer and saving to a ramdisk? It makes little sense that the HD should need to spin up. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/
