Re: (reiserfs) Re: sync: why disk cannot spin down

From: Xuan Baldauf (xuan--reiserfs@baldauf.org)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 09:18:07 EST


Andre Hedrick wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Xuan Baldauf wrote:
>
> > Now I made all my partitions noatime, and wow,
> >
> > sync; hdparm -C -Y /dev/hda; sync; hdparm -C /dev/hda
> >
> > does not necessarily spin up the disk!
>
> Because you have to issue a drive reset.

This is my intent, not to spin up the disk. (In my previous case, sync
always spun up the disk because the filesystem was not mounted with
"noatime".)

>
>
> Andre Hedrick
> The Linux ATA/IDE guy

Xuân. :o)

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