On Friday 07 January 2005 02:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip> > I did run a little benchmark earlier today without seeing > this thread. I had been suffering from Reiser3 for quite > some time and switched to Reiser4 yesterday. Reiser4 was > really nice in that it made my disk really silent. It is > possible that it was a bit slower though.
Although it is a good point, noise isn't a good metric. If I switch off DMA, my discs run very quietly, but I'm sure they aren't so fast :-) WRT noise managing it's far better to exploit modern HDs capabilities, namely AAM (acoustic management): see hdparm -M. For example in my box I have two cron jobs; at 7:00 disks can wakeup and begin singing loud, at 23:00 they are again put in a quiet state. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.10, Compiled #2 Mon Dec 27 06:35:03 CET 2004 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
