Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:25:57 +0200 | From | Xuan Baldauf <> | Subject | Re: sync: why disk cannot spin down |
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Russell King wrote:
> Xuan Baldauf writes: > > this problem is possibly unrelated to reiserfs but related to > > linux-kernel, but now I can prove it: regular sync()s do prevent the > > spindown of (IDE) disks. There will be a call to sync() after 32 or less > > seconds have elapsed since the last sync(). Not a problem itself, but > > every sync spins up the disk again. > > You may want to have a look at the atime/diratime mount options, or > even chattr -A to prevent certain files causing a write when they're > run/read. > > Note that just executing "sync" causes its atime to be marked for update, > which will cause a write back to disk a short while later. > > [...]
Thank you for waking me! :o) I forgot the atime issue. I wonder why it still is the default...
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Just FYI: 404 Not Found
Thanx, Xuân. :o)
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