From: Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA hotswap and write caches
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:53:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070604005341.GA3315@zoy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4662CF26.6060902@garzik.org>
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).
--
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
"Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain
in a James Bond movie." -- Dennis Miller
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-04 0:53 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 [this message]
2007-06-08 13:05 ` Tejun Heo
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