On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:35:06 +0200 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> wrote:
> Really? That would make the system close to unusable, and the disk's > life expectancy would be reduced to a few months; a disk that performs > two load / unload cycles per minute on average will need replacing > after three to six months. Remember, there was a huge flap a couple > of years when Ubuntu shipped with a default timeout of 90 seconds, > which is more than ten times more than what you suggest. The Ubuntu issue was what I was thinking of - I got that mixed up with the aggressive power management of the WD EARS drives. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
