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Date:      Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:03:30 -0500
From:      "aSe" <aSe@SysFail.com>
To:        "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: port of noflushd
Message-ID:  <KCECKLBMJCEIIOLIPBPEAEJOCEAA.aSe@SysFail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030111032245.GB39434@dan.emsphone.com>

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>In the last episode (Jan 10), aSe said:
>> I'm building up a box outta spare parts i had laying around. I'm
>> really looking for a FreeBSD port of noflushd (
>> http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ ) or something that'll do the same.
>
>Why would anyone _not_ want disk writes to be written to disk?  Use a
>ramdisk if you don't want to touch the drive.  I'm trying to think of a
>use for this program.

The noise of the constally spinning HD does bother me. I sleep rather =
close to my computers. With that application/program, the HD would be =
spun down when not needed/inuse. If i had enough ram to run everything =
off a ramdrive i would attempt it. Right now I only have 3x64mb laying =
around.

Gordon Keesler [aSe@SysFail.com]



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