Hi Daniel! On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Daniel Faller wrote:
> I am running the ext3 filesystem on a laptop. The default value for the
> commit time of ext3 seems to be 30 sec, which is too short for the HD to spin
> down. How can I increase this timeout ?
>
> Has anyone experineces of bad impacts in increasing this timeout to several
> minutes ?
>
> standard-kernel : 2.4.17
> e2fsprogs version: 1.25-1
i think newsforge has had an interview with one of the ext3 developers
recently and he mentioned that this was one of the current problems with
ext3. it does override any setting that prevents it from syncing the
filsystem.
yours martin
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