pm-utils for F8 and Advanced power management

[Callum Lerwick]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:02:30AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Maybe I'm unusual, but I rarely reboot my laptop cleanly. I'm not sure I'd
>> want X weeks of logs to go away.
>>
>> Are there any sorts of mechanisms to do per-directory or per-file writeback
>> caching, so that /var/log/ could be set to 'sync only every 15 minutes',
>> or similar?
>
> Not that I can think of. Implementing it in rsyslog might be the easiest
> option, though that would still leave apps that do their logging by
> hand. Maybe we should just fix them all up to use syslog when possible.

Maybe we should just get a full-blown laptop-mode working. The problem
has already been solved. But we appear to not be using it.

http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/