From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA hotswap and write caches
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:05:24 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46695414.70807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070604005341.GA3315@zoy.org>
Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:24:38AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Michel Lespinasse wrote:
>>> * Is there anything one needs to know before hot-removing a drive ?
>> Make sure all data is flushed to the drive before removing it.
>
> Sure. Is there a way to do that, though, other than using /sbin/halt
> which seems to have, errr, undesirable side-effects :)
>
> Ideally it'd be very nice if that was doable through /sys or /proc files.
> It'd also be nice if disk standby was user-controllable in this way too.
> (or maybe both as one step, i.e. a way to tell the kernel we'd like to
> take the disk out in the safest way possible).
If you're using barrier, you should be in the clear, I think.
--
tejun
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-08 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-03 10:43 SATA hotswap and write caches Michel Lespinasse
2007-06-03 14:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-04 0:53 ` Michel Lespinasse
2007-06-08 13:05 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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