Re: Notebook disk spindown

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 08:56:19 EST


Dave Zarzycki wrote:
> 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.

Absolutely. That allows more time spun down too.

-- Jamie
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