On Sunday, December 2, Jedi/Sector One wrote:
>
> I carefully reviewed this man page, however I still can't solve something
> I have to do with OpenBSD : minimize disk activity.

This is not one of the goals of OpenBSD. It is possible to do things which
will help do what you want, but they are definitely non-standard...

> What I need is to allocate a large amount of memory for disk buffering,
> and NEVER write anything to disk until the buffer is really full, or a long
> time has passed (at least one hour) . The goal is to have the hard disk in
> sleep mode as long as possible, battery duration is critical. I don't care
> about losing a lot of data if something goes wrong (the partition is
> formatted at every reboot anyway) .

In that case, why not make it swap, and put a nice big mfs filesystem on
it? I'm not sure if mfs will do what you are looking for, but it should
be pretty close.

--Toby.

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