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Disabling Fsync in Laptop_Mode

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The following will show you how to stop your hard disk from spinnig up due to fsync in active laptop_mode. So get your kernel source ready. There are several libraries that help you to disable fsync temporarily so your hard disk doesn't always spin up to save your notebooks battery. Of course that is not very flexible as you need to preload the libraries meaning you have to restart the programs.

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