From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261206AbUBTNqH (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:46:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261235AbUBTNp7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:45:59 -0500 Received: from 31.Red-80-59-88.pooles.rima-tde.net ([80.59.88.31]:7863 "EHLO jabato.portsdebalears.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261206AbUBTNmX (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:42:23 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:42:18 +0100 From: Kiko Piris To: Cristiano De Michele Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: laptop mode in 2.4.24 Message-ID: <20040220134218.GA15112@fpirisp.portsdebalears.com> Mail-Followup-To: Cristiano De Michele , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1077276719.6533.16.camel@piro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1077276719.6533.16.camel@piro> User-Agent: Mutt Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20/02/2004 at 12:32, Cristiano De Michele wrote: > that is only journaling is writing to my HD > and anyway every minute more or less something > gets written to HD preventing it from being spinned down IIRC, laptop-mode included in mainline 2.4 does not reset commit interval of ext3 filesystems (as surely did the patch you applied to older kernels). You need to remount your filesystems with appropate commit option. You can see the updated control script that's in 2.6.*-mm* trees. -- Kiko