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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:07:01 +0200
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
        Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
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Subject: Re: spindown
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Isn't this why noflushd exists or is this an evil thing that shouldn't
> > ever be used and will eventually eat my disks for breakfast?
> 
> It would eat your flash for breakfast. You know, flash memories have
> no spinning parts, so there's nothing to spin down.

Btw Pavel, does noflushd work with 2.4.4?  The noflushd version 2.4 I
tried said it couldn't find some kernel process (kflushd?  I don't
remember) and that I should use bdflush.  The manual says that's
appropriate for older kernels, but not 2.4.4 surely.

-- Jamie