[ltp] Journaling on a laptop?

[Dax Kelson]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 15:08, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 23:00, Matt Graham wrote:
> > You need "noflushd" or a set of kernel patches called "laptop-mode" 
> [snip]
> 
> Before doing all of this you've got to decide whether or not you can
> afford loosing 10 minutes of work in case your laptop suddenly run out
> of power or otherwise shuts down without writing the cached data to your
> HDD.

The first reason you mention is no long true.

With recent laptop-mode scripts.

"The supplied ACPI scripts automatically turn off laptop mode when the
battery almost runs out, so that you won't lose any data at the end of
your battery life."

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs