Hi, On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:16:44PM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote: > > when using ext3, i can't get my hard disks to go to standby mode > any more. i am using timeouts set by hdparm with 2.4.18 kernels. Hmm, I've no idea --- it works fine for me. > i suspect ext3's journal to be causing the disk accesses. > is that possible? The journal shouldn't be active unless there is data queued for write to the disk. Cheers, Stephen
