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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Eric Wood" <eric interplas com> writes:
> 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?

My memory of what Stephen said is that Nautilus should hold mtab open
instead of opening/closing it over and over. I'm not sure I remember
correctly though.

Havoc