Re: Periodic disk writes
Albert Cahalan (albert@ccs.neu.edu)
Mon, 15 Apr 1996 15:37:59 -0400 (EDT)
> I have periodic disk writes that prevent me from going into power saving
> mode on my harddrive, even when supposedly nothing should be happening.
> Does anyone know a way to somehow list out disk read/write requests?
You need a mount option (which does not exist) that disables atime
updates. Maybe also a better way for 'tail' to detect file size
changes, such as 'select' or some other blocking system call.