From: Nix <nix_at_esperi.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:36:37 +0100

On 2 Jul 2008, Linus Nielsen Feltzing stated:

> Jonathan Gordon wrote:
>> always keeping track of bookmarks means more disk access. and that
>> extra main menu entry... I thought it was enabled by default and would
>> have no problems changing that default.
>
> Couldn't they be cached in memory and flushed at shutdown?

That means always spinning up the disk on shutdown, doesn't it? Are
disks happy with rapid spinup-then-powerdown cycles? (Some iPod Video
disks at least made unpleasant screeching noises if you did that.)
Received on 2008-07-02