[ltp] Hard disk shutdown

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 23:34:56 +0200, Ted Johansson wrote:
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> Done some more testing...
> Although most of the syslogs where set to async writing, log files were 
> written (contrary to what I said in the last mail). Identified one by 
> one and all troublesomes are really switched off (not a permanent 
> solution). Why this happens, I don't know.
> Still, the disk is only silent for 10-20 seconds.
> 
> Have turned off syslogd/klogd. Still only silent for a few seconds.
> 
> Continued to kill almost all of the daemons with the same negative result.
> 
> I think it is the kjournald that is causing this, I know it is related 
> to ext3, but why does it have to run when I am only using ext2?

I think the kjournald should do nothing if there is no ext3 partition
mounted, but maybe you should recompile the kernel without ext3 and
look what happens.

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