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From: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when  alaptop is powered by a battery?
Date: 25 Jun 2002 10:24:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1025025852.1519.54.camel@turbulence.megapathdsl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D18A273.284F8EDD@zip.com.au>

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 10:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Miles Lane wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there any possibility we could:
> > 
> > 1)  Add support to the boot/mounting process
> >     so that, if a machine is being powered by
> >     battery, EXT3 partitions are mounted with
> >     EXT2, instead?
> > 
> > 2)  While the machine is running, notice when the
> >     power source switches between AC and battery
> >     or vice versa and remount partitions EXT3
> >     partitions to use EXT2 whenever a battery is
> >     being used?
> > 
> 
> umm, why?
> 
> If it's because of the disk-spins-up-too-much problem then
> that can be addressed by allowing the commit interval to be
> set to larger values.

Thanks Andrew,

Yes, the concern is the syncing every few seconds.
Would it be possible and make sense to have this
setting get adjusted dynamically when a laptop goes 
onto battery power?

	Miles




  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-25 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-24 20:02 Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when a laptop " Miles Lane
2002-06-24 20:23 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-24 20:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-25 17:03 ` Automatically mount or remount EXT3 partitions with EXT2 when alaptop " Andrew Morton
2002-06-25 17:24   ` Miles Lane [this message]
2002-06-25 19:35     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-03  3:02       ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-26  0:13   ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-06-26 18:39     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-02 13:23       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03  3:04         ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-28 21:59   ` Daniel Kobras
2002-07-02 12:13     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03  3:04       ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-04 20:30         ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-07-04 22:05       ` Daniel Kobras
2002-07-05  7:59         ` Stephen Tweedie
2002-07-06  0:58           ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-23 11:14             ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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