“but at what cost?”
Huawei was also smart in making EROFS, which later got integrated into Linux kernel. It is way better than F2FS (Google) or any other filesystem made on Android.
neat
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We have. Spinning down disks not being accessed has been a thing for decades.
But it’s rarely used, because even if you the user aren’t reading or writing files, all the background systems are still using the disk. And spinning up and down is more west and tear on a drive than constant spinning.
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It’s fairly standard behavior
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Completely irrelevant, nobody argued for or against that.
I got a drive over 10 years ago that had some very aggressive power management by default. It would park the heads and spin down less than a minute after the last access. It was so bad that it would kill the drives within a couple of years if you didn’t disable it. I found out about it a couple weeks after getting the drive and it already had more load/unload cycles than a disk that’s been in normal use for years.
It was a problem with early WD green drives IIRC. The power management was exceptionally aggressive and caused massive issues when put in to any RAID-like set up. You could override it though generally.
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If only that comment contained a link explaining exactly what it is…
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The state of this society (ಥ﹏ಥ) see that damn link
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it’s definitely one of those obvious in retrospect things
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I mean that once the idea is demonstrated, it’s not actually that complicated. But seems like nobody tried doing it until now. A lot of innovation seems very obvious in retrospect once somebody does it.
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no worries
