Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 13.05.2008, 22:42 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat:
> Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 11:22 +0200, Oliver Grawert a écrit :
> > hi,
> > Am Montag, den 12.05.2008, 23:14 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat:
> > > I'd like to raise the developers' awareness about bug 59695 [1]: High
> > > frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime
> > > 
> > please see this article:
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/257426/
> > it is not aything ubuntu specific but a hardware vendor setting, note as
> > well that the relatime mount option is the default with hardys 2.6.24
> > kernel.
> If you think it's been solved with the relatime option in Hardy, then
> please go there and explain it to the subscribers, and set the bug to
> Invalid. Don't let people talk again and again about these issues.
please read the article again... relatime might help as part of a
workaround but the article makes pretty clear that there is no sane way
you can solve it on the software side in a nonintrusive way, its a
hardware vendor setting and hardware vendors need to fix it.

ciao
	oli
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