[vdr] Re: hd spindown with noflushd?

["Robert Schneider" <Robert.Schneider@de.ibm.com>]

I have that running with reiserfs and noflushd just fine and my disks are 
only going up if there is real harrdisk-activity. So there seems to be 
another problem than reiserfs.

vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org wrote on 23.11.2001 02:04:56:

> 
> Hello Gernot,
> 
> sorry to tell you, but this problem is known and documented. at least in 
my
> debian-distro it was mentioned in /usr/share/doc/noflushd or in the 
manpage
> (not definately sure, which one of them).
> 
> 
> Ciao,
> 
>     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?
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've setup a vdr box a few month ago. But I don't like the sound of 
the
> > harddiscs during watching movies. There is a daemon called noflushd, 
which
> > should be able to spindown the discs, when tey are not used. I 
installed
> > it, but there is no spinning down at all. I think it is related to my
> > reiserfs file system. So I remounted the partitions with 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 important 
stuff
> > on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.
> >
> >                               Linus Torvalds, after a hard drive crash
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
>