Comment 13 for bug 607560

this wasn't a problem in early releases of Ubuntu 10.10 kernel. Now that we are in RC, it is back and it is a bad thing to have as it kills battery life. I will get on IRC and see if i can get some traction on this.

cat /proc/mount yields a mount commit=60 (that is too fast). Any how, iotop clearly shows jbd2 constantly flushing preventing the hard drive from spinning down.

this is a real issue that we should fix for 10.10