Re: Noatime, etc. ..why not just set APM to shut the disk off after two minutes of inactivity? ..then, even if the disk unparks right after it parks, this will at least happen few enough times to give 2/3 years of hd life (assuming it was cycling all the time, which it wouldn't be, and therefore would probably end up around 3/5 or more years of life). And if some kind of regular disk access is occurring, it won't even park -- which is quite fine.
-b > > I vote for enabling noatime first. :-) > > The problem with that is that it disables atime. I find it very useful > to know when files were most recently accessed. It really shouldn't be > disabled by default either. I don't see why atime information has to be > written to the disk instantaneously - if there was some way of saving it > up and writing it periodically, that would help. -- Hard drive spindown should be configurable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
