Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi there, > > I am currently tinkering a idn-router which a harddrive which should > mostly be in stand-by. > However it seems the drive is rather unimpressed by a 5s timeout > setting specified with hdparm and goes in standby very seldom although > the computer is runnig 100% idle (even no isdn-services started or > anything else). > > Could this be because of some journal-writeback stuff or anything like > that? Is there a way to tune ReiserFS for more standby-friendliness?
Have you tried "-o noatime"? Also, Reiser4 is much more standby-friendly. If you've got the RAM, it won't touch your disk too much.
