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Re: follow up.

Has anyone tried noflushd with ext3 - or is that just
overkill?  Or for that matter has anyone done power
comparisons of noflushd vs ext3.

Rick

 --- "Seth W. Klein" <> wrote: > > 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
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