Re: laptops and journalling filesystems

[David Ford]

My laptop works quite well with reiserfs, maybe you have some program 
that is doing the diddling?  Once my disk goes to sleep, it stays asleep 
until I do something that isn't in the cache or needs to be written out 
of the cache.

David

Tony Lill wrote:

>Do any of the current batch of journalling filesystems NOT diddle the
>disk every 5 seconds? I've tried reiser and ext3 and they're both
>antithetic to spinning down the disk. Any plans to fix this bug in
>future kernels?
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