PATCH: Forcible delaying of UFS (soft)updates

[MikeM]

On 4/13/2003 at 2:16 AM Michael Collette wrote:

|...
|Did my mail get written to the drive prior to suspending?  I'll 
|grant you that this isn't in the same league as moving cash around, 
|but to me that mail is absolutely mission critical.
|
|I'd love to get 10% more battery life from my laptop, but not at the
|expense of having a file system that loses data on any unclean 
|shutdown.  Be it moving $500, storing E-Mail, or just saving a 
|document I had been working on.  ...
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In your case, if you consider what you are doing on the notebokk to be
"mission critical", it would not be prudent to use the optional feature the
patch provides.

My reading of this thread has not found any indication that the patch is in
effect either by default or without your desire to run it.