> > I made some updates to bdflush a while ago and sent them off to
> > Eric Youngdale but got no reply. FWIW, spindown support does not
> > belong in bdflush -- use "hdparm -S" instead.
> >
> Hehehe, and what do you think hdparm -S does? Yes, it lets your HD
> spin down _IF_ there was no harddisk activity. And guess what bdflush (or
> updated) does? Yes, it accesses the harddisk. So you can't spin down
> your disk (or maybe you can, but not for a very long time, maximum maybe
> 30 minutes), unless you have a bdflush/updated that supports spun down
> disks ...
Not completely true. On _very_ quiet system, where nothing _ever_
runs, so not even access times from files are being dirty, hdparm -S
might work forever.
> (patches for spindownsupport for updated 1.3 can be found on sunsite ...)
Is there better pointer available? I'm semi-offline at this time.
Pavel
Q: What is difference between bdflush-1.5 and updated-1.3? I saw
sources for both and they seemed to me as two completely separate
trees of same thing. bdflush-1.5 seemed a bit more current. Can
someone enlighten me?
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