From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu) by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 10:00:06 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:59:47 -0400 Received: from pec-58-36.tnt4.b2.uunet.de ([149.225.58.36]:2434 "EHLO router.abc") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:58:57 -0400 Message-ID: <39858A9F.C272E4E8@baldauf.org> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:18:07 +0200 From: Xuan Baldauf Organization: Medium.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,de-DE MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Hedrick Cc: Russell King , reiserfs@devlinux.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: (reiserfs) Re: sync: why disk cannot spin down References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu 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) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/