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    SubjectRe: faster boots?

    Well they are there if they were not deleted by the 2.5 maintainer.
    If they were, then feel free to copy and credit the work from 2.4 once I
    complete the infrastructure.

    Cheers,

    Andre Hedrick
    LAD Storage Consulting Group

    On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

    > Richard Gooch wrote:
    > >
    > > But I *want* to write while the drive is spun down. And leave it spun
    > > down until the system is RAM starved (or some threshold is reached).
    > >
    >
    > Yes. The desirable behaviour for laptops is to defer writes
    > for a very long time, or until the user says "sync".
    >
    > Mechanisms need to be put in place so that if there are pending
    > writes and the disk happens to be spun up for a read, we take
    > advantage of that spinup to push out the pending writes at
    > the same time.
    >
    > This behaviour should be all be enabled by a special "laptop mode"
    > switch.
    >
    > There's nothing particularly hard in all this... I'll do a 2.5
    > version at some stage.
    >
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