On 17 Jan 2006 01:15:05 -0800 "David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I realy want a quiet PC in my bedroom. My experience is that journaling > file systems generate mor disc activity than ext2 for example. > > I run ext2 and noflushd and it works rather OK. Logfiles spin it up say > once every hour. I believe demand for "quiet pc's" is raising, and > minimising disc activity is one factor. > > >From http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ "Journaling filesystems like > ext3, reiserfs or xfs bypass the kernel's delayed write mechanisms. > This amounts to lousy spindown times when working off such a partition. > There's no workaround for this." > > regards, David. From 'aptitude show cpudyn' [quote] ... and can put the computer disks in standby mode if a given period has passed without any I/O operation. It works well even with journaled file systems such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS. Even supports the new interface for kernels 2.6.x [end quote] It works well for me, though i had to turn of sysklod... Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
