[ltp] No HD spindown with 2.6.32-rc

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:07:29 -0200


On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Tino Keitel wrote:
> For the records: I managed to fix noflushd to work with 2.6.32-rc*. It
> looks like this kernel version doesn't like it anymore if
> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs it set to 0, some kernel flush
> threads will go crazy in this case.

Please file a bug on bugzilla.kernel.org.  It has to return -EINVAL if it is
illegal, or it has to do something sensible if it is not illegal.

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  Henrique Holschuh