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  From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
  To  : Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
        <apmd-list@worldvisions.ca>
  Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:16:49 -0400

Re: Power management policy

On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:46:09PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > [For example, managing the
> > hard disk standby, and calling bdflush() immediately before a hard
> > disk spindown].  That's probably best left to another separate
> > program.  apmdplus? :-)
> 
> It is called bdflush-1.6, please try it.
> 
> Anyway, it should NOT be apmdplus, as bdflush with spindown support is
> usefull even for non-apm-aware systems (desktop).

Hmm, I'd never heard of this but I just tried it and it seems to work!

Now, Debian includes updated, which is in the same directory on sunsite and
was patched fairly recently.  Aside from your spindown changes, what are the
differences between updated and bdflush?  updated is a lot smaller, but
bdflushd has a lot of command-line options I don't understand... are they
still applicable?

Should I encourage Debian to carry bdflush instead of updated?

Have fun,

Avery