Re: Notebook disk spindown

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Sun Sep 10 2000 - 10:07:49 EST


On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:

>at least a day, IMO. There's probably no reason it can't effectively
>be infinite. The kernel shouldn't be enforcing policy in this area.

Right. An embedded usage where there are no writeable blockdevices can
just set the interval to zero and avoid a schedule every 5 seconds.

Andrea

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