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Re: follow up.

Rick Jones <> wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried noflushd with ext3 - or is that just
> overkill?  Or for that matter has anyone done power
> comparisons of noflushd vs ext3.

I think you're confused. As the man page states, the reason to not
use ext3 with noflushd is that ext3 will spin the disk up to write
its journal even if noflushd holds the actual write in (memory)
cache. So ext3 defeats the purpose of noflushd.

cheers,
Seth W. Klein
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                         http://www.sethwklein.net/

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