On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:45:23PM +0200, Bart Samwel wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> >Why is laptop-mode-tools trying to remount the file
> >systems in the first place?
> 
> Let me try to explain. Ext3 file systems (and some other journalling 
> file systems) write to disc periodically, to flush its journal 
> transactions. When laptop mode is enabled, laptop mode tools must tweak 
> the mount options for ext3 to make the flush intervals larger, so that 
> the disc doesn't spin up every 30 seconds. At resume time, some of the 
> settings are forgotten by the hardware and/or the kernel, so laptop mode 
> tools has to forcibly reapply all settings, including the mount options.

Can this behavior of laptop-mode-tools be disabled by configuration?

Greetings
Marc

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