Re: [Nautilus-list] nautilus always stat64() /etc/mtab

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Eric Wood wrote:

> nautilus wants to constantly monitor /etc/mtab to see if something
> automount.  However this function keeps the hard drives spinning, battery
> life low, and ext3 continually flushing the journals.
> 
> Stephen Tweddie (author of ext3) says to use some other function (I don't
> know what it is) that does the same thing as stat64() but lets the drives
> spin down when not really used.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Great, except we need to know what to use instead :)

/ Alex