Re: Notebook disk spindown

[Dave Zarzycki]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Would it be possible to detect when the disk spins up, and do the flush then?

Personally speaking, I always thought it would be nice if the kernel
flushed dirty buffers right before a disk spins down. It seems silly to me
that a disk can spin down with writes pending.

davez

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