I don't think that it is entirely true that it is due to ReiserFS. I
use ReiserFS on my laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-C1XS) running Slackware 8.1,
and using the advice found in the Battery-Powered-HOWTO, I was able to
set the harddrive to spin down after 15 seconds and remain spun down
for minutes at a time (I don't recall the setting I have it at).
I would recommend trying the suggestions in the HOWTO, or seeing how
the suggestions would be implemented under SuSE. You should also take
a look at the man pages for hdparm.
Theo. Sean Schulze
theodore.schulze@us.army.mil
----- Original Message -----
From: Pep Serrano
This is due to Reiser... It was discussed in this list long ago. This is way the disk can not "sleep" using the APM features....
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 21:42, Leo Linux wrote:
My laptop has same problem Leo
Mailing Lists wrote:
Hi,
I have running 4 SuSE linux boxes with 8.0, the FS are ext2 in some machines and RaiserFS in others. I noticed time ago there was HDD access every 20 secs +/-, but I dont care in that moment, now I install 8.0 on a Laptop IBM thinkpad 600 and I have the same activity oin disks, but in this case this cause battery to go down shorter, so I want to know if anybody knows which process cause this hard thisk activity and if it can be removed.
Thanks
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