From: "U. George" <netbeans@gatworks.com>
To: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question on flushing buffers and spinning down disk
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:37:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FC22B4.7030702@gatworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0709271704290.7735-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
> No. You shouldn't expect users to run a program that would notice a
> particular disk drive hasn't been used in X minutes and then power it
> down. (Although they could if they wanted to... except that there's no
> way for userspace to know when the drive was most recently used.)
I use noflushd to do userspace powerdowns for internal (ide) drives.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 8:32 question on flushing buffers and spinning down disk Oliver Neukum
2007-09-18 14:01 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-18 14:15 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-18 14:26 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-24 10:33 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-24 14:38 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-24 15:21 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-24 15:34 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-24 16:47 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-24 17:10 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-24 19:16 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-24 19:39 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-24 20:00 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-25 14:13 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-25 15:11 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28 4:27 ` Greg KH
2007-09-28 7:02 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28 19:33 ` Greg KH
2007-09-25 7:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-25 15:03 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-27 11:40 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-27 16:01 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-27 18:12 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-27 19:07 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2007-09-27 19:26 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-27 20:26 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-27 20:54 ` Steve Calfee
2007-09-27 21:16 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-27 21:37 ` U. George [this message]
2007-09-28 8:17 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28 15:01 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-28 8:22 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28 21:11 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-28 21:47 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-29 15:56 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-29 16:12 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28 9:04 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-28 15:07 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-28 21:33 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2007-09-29 16:38 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-29 17:52 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-29 19:06 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-29 20:06 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-09-29 20:56 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-29 21:03 ` David Brownell
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