[ltp] hardrive suspend does not work

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 22:28:56 -0400, mukesh agrawal wrote:

[...]

> > I have debian and gentoo installed on this notebook, a thinkpad x24 by the
> > way. Both independent, and both suffer from a not working HD suspend.
> > Gentoo has reiserfs and debian an ext3 file system. noatime is already set
> > in /etc/fstab.
> 
> Are you running noflushd? If the problem is due to writes (rather than
> reads), noflushd should fix it.
> 
> Of course, you need to be careful about losing data in the event of a
> crash.

noflushd will not work reliable with any of the journaling filesystems,
since they bypass the bdflush daemon to write the journal, causing the
HD to spin up. However, I heard some rumors that this should change
with the VFS layer of the 2.6 kernel.

Regards,
Tino