[vdr] Re: hd spindown with noflushd?

["Rienecker, Fa. Evenio, ITS P, M" <C.Rienecker@deutschepost.de>]

Hello,
and furthermore, iirc, noflushd is used to prevent disk spin-ups while
writing. You prevent flushing the cache to disk as long as possible. =
You
will have to live with disks spinning while watching a movie.

greetings 2u,
CR.

> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Achim_Lange@t-online.de [mailto:Achim_Lange@t-online.de]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 23. November 2001 02:05
> An: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Betreff: [vdr] Re: hd spindown with noflushd?
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> Hello Gernot,
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> sorry to tell you, but this problem is known and documented.=20
> at least in my
> debian-distro it was mentioned in /usr/share/doc/noflushd or=20
> in the manpage
> (not definately sure, which one of them).
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> Ciao,
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>     Achim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gernot A. Weber" <gernot@tux-web.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 11:38 PM
> Subject: [vdr] hd spindown with noflushd?
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I've setup a vdr box a few month ago. But I don't like the=20
> sound of the
> > harddiscs during watching movies. There is a daemon called=20
> noflushd, which
> > should be able to spindown the discs, when tey are not=20
> used. I installed
> > it, but there is no spinning down at all. I think it is=20
> related to my
> > reiserfs file system. So I remounted the partitions with=20
> noatime option.
> > But it is still not working - even not for my ext2-partitions. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Ciao
> >
> >    Gernot
> >
> > --
> > Gernot A. Weber
> > http://www.tux-web.de
> >
> > Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their=20
> important stuff
> > on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.
> >
> >                               Linus Torvalds, after a hard=20
> drive crash
> >
> >
> >
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