Re: Is there a way to keep the 2.6 kjournald from writing to idle disks? (to allow spin-downs)

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jan 25, 2004  19:29 +0100, Lutz Vieweg wrote:
> Alas, since an upgrade to kernel 2.6 and ext3 filesystem, I cannot find a 
> way to let the harddisk spin down - I found out that "kjournald" writes a
> few blocks every few seconds.

Loop for laptop-mode patches, which should allow you to do this.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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