Does anyone use virtual-dev? (was Re: updated vs. bdflush -- which is better?)
In article <19981001001938.A5300@worldvisions.ca>,
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca> wrote:
>Pavel Machek recently extended the bdflush package to efficiently handle
>hard disk spindown for power saving mode. I played with the changes, and it
>seems to work really well.
Some time ago, I made a package called "virtual-dev", which was supposed
to help keep the hard disk spun down. (It works by putting /dev on
a ramdisk.) More recent kernels, however, seem to be pretty good at
avoiding accessing the disk without any outside help, so "virtual-dev"
seems to be redundant already -- with things like the enhanced bdflush
Avery mentions, I would expect it to become even more so.
So I'd like to ask: does anyone actually use virtual-dev? If not,
I'll ask that it be removed from the archive.
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