Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop is powered by a battery? | From | Miles Lane <> | Date | 25 Jun 2002 10:24:11 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 10:03, Andrew Morton wrote: > Miles Lane wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Is there any possibility we could: > > > > 1) Add support to the boot/mounting process > > so that, if a machine is being powered by > > battery, EXT3 partitions are mounted with > > EXT2, instead? > > > > 2) While the machine is running, notice when the > > power source switches between AC and battery > > or vice versa and remount partitions EXT3 > > partitions to use EXT2 whenever a battery is > > being used? > > > > umm, why? > > If it's because of the disk-spins-up-too-much problem then > that can be addressed by allowing the commit interval to be > set to larger values.
Thanks Andrew,
Yes, the concern is the syncing every few seconds. Would it be possible and make sense to have this setting get adjusted dynamically when a laptop goes onto battery power?
Miles
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