Still a configuration problem. Emacs should not write to disc unless
auto-save is on (and you've typed), or you explicitely save the file.
If you really want to edit/compile/run without spinning up the disc,
then mount a ramdisc and copy stuff to that. Modify your shutdown
scripts to save the source file to a real disc.
> > Configuration, configuration, configuration. The problem is that a lot
> > of stuff in user space expects to write from time to time. Tracking
> > down those places can take a while, but I assure you that's where the
> > problem lies.
>
> Sure. But many people won't be able to do that, and 'mobile-update'
> makes it much easier IMHO. In that case, you would only care for
> fsync's (basically syslog). You can have 'noatime' if you need it
> for some reason, and you won't care about frequent but tiny cron
> jobs like 'rmmod -a' at all. Actually, with my patch it's pretty
> much like working on a ramdisk.
Hacking the kernel to work around deficiencies in user space and
configuration space is not a good idea, IMO.
Regards,
Richard....
Old: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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