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Re: follow up.

"Sarah Nordstrom (wh)" <> wrote:
> 
> If you're on Debian, apt-get noflushd. That daemon seems to work nicely on
> my ibook for spinning disks down after inactivity, i'm 90% sure it works
> w/ ppc too, though i'd imagine you have to turn on power saving settings
> in the BIOS...

"w/ x86 too", i think you meant :)

> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Jeremy wrote:
> 
> > i am sure with all the people using linux on
> > laptops that someone has addressed the issue
> > of disk spin downs for power conservation.

And if you're not using Debian :) there is
<http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/>. Source tarballs and RPMs are also
available. Latest release as of this writing is 2.6.3 from 2002-05-12.

The standard "./configure && make && make install" works (and doesn't
mess with your init scripts) although i prefer this:
./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix= \
--mandir='${prefix}/share/man' --with-docdir='${prefix}/share/doc/noflushd'

This'll be obvious if you read the docs, but remember to run sync
before crashing the machine ;P and it looks like noflushd is a reason
to stay with ext2. Not that that's a great disadvantage since there
is little sense in keeping a journal if you don't write it anywhere.

cheers,
Seth W. "zja-zjir" Klein
-- 
                         http://www.sethwklein.net/
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