On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 00:59 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > On 1/2/11, John Mellor <john.mellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I've got a 1.5TB Western Digital Green drive, and I'm not happy with the > > performance of it. There are also several discussions online about > > these drives having an early ageing problem with ext4 filesystems > > because of them unloading the heads every 5 seconds and ext4 only > > flushing its journal every 30 seconds. > > This problem was mentioned in a recent discussion on the Linux Audio > Users list, and someone mentioned there that there's an alternative > firmware for these drives that solves this frequent parking of the > heads problem. Can you point me to a web page or somewhere to get that alternate firmware and instructions for installing it? Right now, I'm just updating a couple of chars in a file every 3 seconds that I've opened using o_sync and doing a fflush() and fsync() in order to work around the problem. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
