From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Linux IDE <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Subject: Re: can I freeze I/O for some time to a given disk / md / dm
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:23:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DB1B79.1070905@wpkg.org> (raw)
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:01:27PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to "freeze I/O" for some time to a given disk / md / dm
>> device?
>>
>> Say, "freeze I/O" so that userspace waits for any response for 30, 60
>> seconds or more?
>
> For real disks you can use /sys/block/sdX/device/unload_heads to achieve
> something similar (see Documentation/laptops/disk-shock-protection.txt
> in the kernel source about how to use it). That won't work for md/dm
> devices though.
For drives which don't support "unload_heads" plain hdparm should work:
hdparm -Y /dev/sdX
(possibly repeated in a loop for some time).
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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