AW: harddisk spindown & linux

[Schuett Thomas <Thomas.Schuett@icn.siemens.de>]

Hello,

	>something in linux does disk io every couple of minutes - so "-S 1" 
	>works not as expected and i found no way to prevent this.
	>turning off all daemons (except syslogd and kerneld) showed no 
	>change, which subsystem is responsible for this ?

I do not have linux to hand here at work  :-(    ;-)  , 
but I think, there is  a crontab entry to "sync" each few minutes.

cu,
  Thomas