Re: kjournald and disk sleeping

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:38:59 +0100


Hi,

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:28:46AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Yes, this is a bit of a problem - it's probably atime updates,

You can mount a filesystem with the "noatime" option, though. That's
useful on laptops to stop read accesses from spinning up the disk.

Cheers,
Stephen
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