27 Mar
2003
27 Mar
'03
8:46 a.m.
Adam Bower wrote:
Are you using ext3 or reiserfs or XFS?
Sorry - I've half-jobbed! I should have said it's a Slackware 8.1 system using ext2 and kernel 2.4.18.
raph@panache.demon.co.uk wrote:
sync runs every 30 secs to flush the disk buffers.
This sounds a bit fundamental. Does this mean that, in general, Linux users never allow their HDDs to sleep then?
Gerald.