From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "U. George" Subject: Re: question on flushing buffers and spinning down disk Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:37:56 -0400 Message-ID: <46FC22B4.7030702@gatworks.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-usb-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-usb-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel