On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:32:25AM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > Surely there is a 'page modified' bit - and the write should only
> > happen if it is modified?
> 
> this may just be updating the vnode 'last access' time.
> 
> if you mount -o noatime,nodevmtime the disk should be more likely to
> spin down.

No such luck here.  With softdep enabled, I have *never* been able to
get any machine's drive to spin down.

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
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 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud