[ltp] Noflushd

Marius Gedminas linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:01:42 +0200


On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 00:41:39 -0800, Brandon Philips wrote:
> I am running Woody 3.0 release 1 on a Thinkpad 600e.  I have set up the
> noflushd default file to not spin down the disk for 5 minutes but it seems
> to ignore my commands always spinning down right after a disk write...  I am
> running a 2.4.18 custom kernel, which was an upgrade from the default 2.2.20
> kernel in Woody.  Is there some script I am missing that is overwriting my
> noflushd settings?

What file system do you use?  The README for noflushd seems to indicate
that noflushd does not work well with ext3/reiserfs.

Marius Gedminas
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