From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: john@grabjohn.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off.
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:45:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040122004554.26536158.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074759964.12536.65.camel@laptop-linux>
Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:13, John Bradford wrote:
> > > This spins down the disk(s) when you're just doing do a reboot. That's
> > > fairly irritating and could affect reboot times if one has many disks.
> >
> > I think it is an attempt to force some broken drives to flush their
> > cache, but I wonder whether it will simply move the problem from one
> > set of broken drives to another :-).
>
> Yes, they were trying to get caches flushed. If this attempt is
> misguided, that's fine. Is there a better way?
A couple of thoughts come to mind:
a) Don't do it if the user typed reboot - only do it if we're powering down.
b) Try to do a cache flush instead. If that fails (do we know?) then
power down the disk instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-22 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-22 1:42 PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22 7:49 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-22 8:13 ` John Bradford
2004-01-22 8:26 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22 8:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-22 9:10 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22 16:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-22 17:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-22 10:08 ` John Bradford
2004-01-22 19:19 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-01-22 19:36 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-01-22 19:52 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-01-22 21:07 ` Jeff Garzik
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2004-03-11 21:46 ` Karol Kozimor
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