<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> The option "notail" is enabled by default for a reiser enabled root partition under ubuntu, but you can also specify the option "noatime" in your fstab, this will prevent the fs updating atimes and also increase performance. Atimes are rarely needed so it's safe to disable. On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 07:52 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 23:32 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Not only. ext3 is badly suited for notebooks, as ext3 has a forced > commit every some (30?) seconds, even if there were no changes at > all. Because of that, harddrives will never go to sleep when ext3 > is used. In my experience, reiserfs is worse suited for laptops because it does an atime sync every 5 seconds. <A HREF="http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#sync-atime">http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#sync-atime</A> I think this also prevents the HD from sleeping, but I don't care and don't know. What I do care about is noise, and I have removed reiserfs from my laptop because the HD sound is quite audible when my apartment is quiet and the async sound drives me mad. I seem to hear nothing with ext3 </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>