[mythtv-users] Power bill vs SchedulesDirect bill

[David Rees]

On 9/19/07, Dale E. Martin <dale at the-martins.org> wrote:
> Look into "laptop-mode" or "noflushd", mount your filesystems "noatime",
> and "nodiratime".  I.e. go read everything you can about saving power on
> laptops and apply it to your backend.  It's possible to get Linux to spin
> the drive down, it just takes some effort.

nodiratime is a subset of noatime, so if you mount your filesystems
with noatime, nodiratime is redundant.

-Dave