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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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