Re: PATCH: Shutdown IDE before powering off.

John Bradford
2004-01-22T10:00:09Z

Quote from Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net>:
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> Hi.
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> 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.
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> > 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 :-).
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> Yes, they were trying to get caches flushed. If this attempt is
> misguided, that's fine. Is there a better way?

It was discussed at length around the 2.4.20 timeframe, when the
power-off cache-flush and spin down behavior was changed, but I don't
remember any real conclusion being reached.

John.