On 17 Jan 2006 01:15:05 -0800 "David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I realy want a quiet PC in my bedroom. My experience is that journaling > file systems generate mor disc activity than ext2 for example. > > I run ext2 and noflushd and it works rather OK. Logfiles spin it up say > once every hour. I believe demand for "quiet pc's" is raising, and > minimising disc activity is one factor. > > >From http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ "Journaling filesystems like > ext3, reiserfs or xfs bypass the kernel's delayed write mechanisms. > This amounts to lousy spindown times when working off such a partition. > There's no workaround for this." > There is a workaround, laptop mode, you can delay writes by as much as you want (10 minutes is the value usually used, but you can used more) > regards, David. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
