Re: ext3 commit time

2002-02-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > 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 > > do

Re: ext3 commit time

2002-02-16 Thread Martin Wuertele
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

Re: ext3 commit time

2002-02-16 Thread Daniel Faller
On Saturday 16 February 2002 17:00, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 04:38:09PM +0100, Daniel Faller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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.

Re: ext3 commit time

2002-02-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 04:38:09PM +0100, Daniel Faller wrote: > Hi, > > 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 ? Use tune2fs (man tune2fs for

ext3 commit time

2002-02-16 Thread Daniel Faller
Hi, 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-kern