I know some may not think that this is a bug, but I really, really don't like having my hard drive spin up, just to check data that could have been written into a cache or something when the hard drive went to sleep.
My KDE pauses as Konqueror spins up sleeping hard drives... and it really bothers me.. whenever I'm curious how much diskspace I have left, I run df... well, The drives spin up, and I'd rather not wait, and I'd rather not wear out my drives, and I'd rather not have the large power suck all at once... I have 3 hard drives... It's not good for my system to have all three of them turn on at the same time. Anyway, I'm tired and frustrated after a day of using Gentoo, and this "feature request" of having hard drive data cached before the hd turns of is important to me... It's probably a kernel issue... but I found this email address first... Thanks for making the tools that I use, -- Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 509 332 7697 ICQ 2302806 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils