Re: ext3 and powersave

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:56:39PM +0800, Stephen DeBrass wrote:
 
> This is probably a silly question, but, does ext3 allow ide drives to go
> int powersave mode?

Yes, it works fine on mine.  Just make sure you mount with the
"noatime" option so that regular background daemons don't cause writes
to trigger all the time when they scan their work queues.

Cheers,
 Stephen