Re: Notebook disk spindown

From: Dave Zarzycki (dave@thor.sbay.org)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 19:07:49 EST

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On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 rob@mur.org.uk wrote:

> Would it be possible to detect when the disk spins up, and do the flush then?

Personally speaking, I always thought it would be nice if the kernel
flushed dirty buffers right before a disk spins down. It seems silly to me
that a disk can spin down with writes pending.

davez

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