Bug#355492: laptop-mode-tools: READAHEAD setting is ineffective on Linux 2.4

2006-03-06 Thread Bart Samwel
Hi Ben, Ben Hutchings wrote: laptop_mode implements the READAHEAD setting by running blockdev with the --setra option for each block-device underlying a mounted file-system. This in turn appears to use the BLKRASET ioctl. In Linux 2.6 this ioctl this has the desired effect. In Linux 2.4 it ap

Bug#355492: laptop-mode-tools: READAHEAD setting is ineffective on Linux 2.4

2006-03-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: laptop-mode-tools Version: 1.05-1 Severity: normal laptop_mode implements the READAHEAD setting by running blockdev with the --setra option for each block-device underlying a mounted file-system. This in turn appears to use the BLKRASET ioctl. In Linux 2.6 this ioctl this has the desire