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Re: Recommened XFS settings for a laptop

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Subject: Re: Recommened XFS settings for a laptop
From: Karol Kozimor <sziwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:28:41 +0100
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Thus wrote Ethan Benson:
> > Are there any recommeded settings (especially mount and sysctl options) for 
> > XFS (on a laptop)? Note that this system freeze isn't really laptop 
> > specific 
> > (why should it be? ;)) but if there are XFS-on-a-laptop users on this list 
> > I'd really appreciate some hints, tipps and tricks for running XFS as 
> > stable 
> > as possible. What about journalling / ordered data modes - commit 
> > intervalls, 
> > noatime, etc.. ?
> noatime is popular on laptops to help keep the disk spun down longer.

Last time I checked, the XFS-specific sysctls had their maximum values too
low to achieve sufficient disk spin-downs, especially with laptop-mode.
I remember someone (Steve Lord?) even suggested to up those limits. Could
this be done?
Best regards,

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Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor
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