Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:48:03 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: faster boots? |
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:43:33PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > Well, noflushd already seems to work pretty well ;-). But I see kernel > > support may be required for SCSI. > > I've had no luck at all with noflushd on my Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT. > It would spin down every few minutes, and then spin up _immediately_, > every time. I have no idea why.
Were you using the console? Any activity on ttys causes device inode atime/mtime updates which trigger disk spin ups. The easiest way to work around this is to run X while using devpts for the ptys.
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