On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 19:22, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, May 29 2003, Oliver Ripka wrote: > > Beside the really annoying "Blink laptop LED on > > activity", which I turned out after having it first > > compiled in(I think on can use this access to the LED > > What are you talking about, that feature is the coolest thing to ever > hit Linux :-) > > No seriously, I quite like it. I dunno how much noise the older > powerbooks make, but the one I have is dead silent. So it's impossible > to know when the disk is churning away without having to put your ear on > the keyboard. And how clever does that look?
well in a very silent room the harddisk is actually noticable... anyway I don't know whether linux supports this, but is it actually possible to have say ext3/xfs or reiserfs with the harddisk going to standby if there is no heavy disk activity (say I am willing to waste 100MB for a writing buffer before any disk activity starts). Soeren.
