[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

[Bart Samwel]

Akshay Srinivasan wrote:
> Brian :-
>     About your fix :- Creating a new file , didn't really do any disk 
> operation - atleast not immediately - so this means laptop-mode is 
> actually working.
>    Paradoxically , firefox some how does instantaneous write operations- 
> laptop-mode fails to work here. Is there anyway one can bypass laptop-mode ?

Laptop mode doesn't disable synchronous operations, so you can add a 
"sync" in the loop to flush the change to disk.

Cheers,
Bart

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High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695
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