From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Subject: Re: Serial ATA (SATA) shutdown info Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:16:46 +0100 Message-ID: <1179317806.16527.73.camel@quest.netsplit.com> References: <1179232945.16527.25.camel@quest.netsplit.com> <711b967b0705150834sdd14538x459119386c19a7ac@mail.gmail.com> <1179243992.16527.56.camel@quest.netsplit.com> <464AE0EB.9080300@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-sS3wsTUmCji5LZp05N/a" Return-path: Received: from paperboy.netsplit.com ([82.108.80.242]:60112 "EHLO paperboy.netsplit.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761130AbXEPMQc (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 08:16:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <464AE0EB.9080300@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, 114683@bugs.launchpad.net --=-sS3wsTUmCji5LZp05N/a Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:46 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > > I'll keep an eye on the thread you linked to, if we don't even need to > > write any zeros, we're definitely happy people :-) >=20 > Me happy too. :-) >=20 Out of interest, do you know there is a hysterical need to sync() before one calls reboot()? I would have thought the kernel takes care of making sure it's own data structures are flushed to disk anyway, but I can't see the reference in the kernel code for where it might do this. Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant Ubuntu Development Manager scott@ubuntu.com --=-sS3wsTUmCji5LZp05N/a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGSvYuSnQiFMl4yK4RAmg3AJ975EIJBqeQ4WuX4PRQtgxaLx8mgACfdoF+ jbnKSwJUdqThJAbIhOFn0hI= =gb1T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-sS3wsTUmCji5LZp05N/a--