Re: Searching for maintainers: dual monitor patches, bdflush

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 17:53:35 +0200


Hi!
>
> > I'm searching for bdflush maintainer: I've created new version of
> > bdflush (1.6.2) based on bdflush-1.5, which adds sleep
> > support. (Bdflush will decide to spin disks down after some period of
> > inactivity. Very usefull on notebooks.) I would like to propagate this
> > into official tree...
>
> I made some updates to bdflush a while ago and sent them off to

> belong in bdflush -- use "hdparm -S" instead.

Well. it does belong in bdflush. For time disks are spinned down I do
no updates, so you do not spin disks back up unless you read from
non-cached place on disks. I also do full sync before spinning disks
down etc. It is very convient: you can actually work on machine with
disks spinned down. [I developed software in such state.]

Pavel

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