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Message-ID: <472EFA1F.8040003@draigBrady.com> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:10:23 +0000 From: Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com> To: Alberto Gonzalez <info@...bu.es> CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Laptop's HDD Alberto Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe some of you have been hearing lately about a problem with laptop's hard > disk drives being killed by *insert Linux distro here* [1] I asked about this on the fedora devel list: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-October/msg02324.html I don't think the kernel should worry about this. I don't even think distros should change the default settings of the BIOS/disk. Up to and including Fedora 7 on my laptop, the disk did a load cycle on average once every 48 seconds. Mounting the filesystems noatime changed this to once every 108 seconds, which is a little aggressive still but not too bad. Note fedora 8 will have the relatime option on by default for all filesystems. Pádraig. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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