laptops and journalling filesystems

From: Tony Lill (ajlill@ajlc.waterloo.on.ca)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 21:54:20 EST

Do any of the current batch of journalling filesystems NOT diddle the
disk every 5 seconds? I've tried reiser and ext3 and they're both
antithetic to spinning down the disk. Any plans to fix this bug in
future kernels? 

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